ALPHA: srmcons, fix racy singleton structure
The test and the assignment were racy. Make it really a singleton.
This is achieved by one global variable initialized at the module
init.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/srmcons.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/srmcons.c
index f1fdf17..2c89ce5c 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/srmcons.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/srmcons.c
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
struct tty_struct *tty;
struct timer_list timer;
spinlock_t lock;
-};
+} srmcons_singleton;
typedef union _srmcons_result {
struct {
@@ -154,43 +154,10 @@
}
static int
-srmcons_get_private_struct(struct srmcons_private **ps)
-{
- static struct srmcons_private *srmconsp = NULL;
- static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(srmconsp_lock);
- unsigned long flags;
- int retval = 0;
-
- if (srmconsp == NULL) {
- srmconsp = kmalloc(sizeof(*srmconsp), GFP_KERNEL);
- spin_lock_irqsave(&srmconsp_lock, flags);
-
- if (srmconsp == NULL)
- retval = -ENOMEM;
- else {
- srmconsp->tty = NULL;
- spin_lock_init(&srmconsp->lock);
- setup_timer(&srmconsp->timer, srmcons_receive_chars,
- (unsigned long)srmconsp);
- }
-
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&srmconsp_lock, flags);
- }
-
- *ps = srmconsp;
- return retval;
-}
-
-static int
srmcons_open(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *filp)
{
- struct srmcons_private *srmconsp;
+ struct srmcons_private *srmconsp = &srmcons_singleton;
unsigned long flags;
- int retval;
-
- retval = srmcons_get_private_struct(&srmconsp);
- if (retval)
- return retval;
spin_lock_irqsave(&srmconsp->lock, flags);
@@ -236,6 +203,9 @@
static int __init
srmcons_init(void)
{
+ spin_lock_init(&srmcons_singleton.lock);
+ setup_timer(&srmcons_singleton.timer, srmcons_receive_chars,
+ (unsigned long)&srmcons_singleton);
if (srm_is_registered_console) {
struct tty_driver *driver;
int err;