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Stefan Richter committed 90963f1cdb3
firewire: core: fix race at address_handler unregistration Fix the following unlikely but possible race: CPU 1 CPU 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AR-request tasklet lookup handler unregister handler free handler->callback_data or handler call handler->callback The application which registered the handler has no way to stop nodes sending new requests to their address range, hence cannot prevent this race. Fix it simply by extending the address_handler_lock-protected region from only around the lookup to around both lookup and call. We only need to do so in the exclusive region handler; the FCP region handler already holds the lock around the handler->callback call. Alas this removes the current ability to execute the callback in parallel on different CPUs if it was called for different FireWire cards at the same time. (For a single card, the handler is already serialized.) If this loss of a rather obscure feature is not tolerable, a more complex fix would be required: Add a handler reference counter; wait in fw_core_remove_address_handler() for this conter to become zero. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>