Re: [PATCH] 2.4.18 Eicon ISDN driver fix.

[Armin Schindler]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Armin Schindler wrote:
>
> > The patch below fixes the race condition with copy_to_user and will
> > not introduce a new race. What can happen is that two reader-processes
> > may get mixed-up messages, but more than one reader isn't allowed here
> > anyway.
> >
> > Please apply this patch to 2.4 and 2.2, it works for both.
>
> Armin,
>
> Your patch does not apply cleanly against my tree.
>
> Please regenerate it.

Hi Marcelo,

I don't why the patch does not apply, maybe whitespace problems ?
Okay, here it is again. I tested it with 2.4.18.

Thanks Armin

diff -Nurb pristine/drivers/isdn/eicon/eicon_mod.c linux/drivers/isdn/eicon/eicon_mod.c
--- pristine/drivers/isdn/eicon/eicon_mod.c	Fri Dec 21 18:41:54 2001
+++ linux/drivers/isdn/eicon/eicon_mod.c	Fri Mar  1 08:07:44 2002
@@ -665,8 +665,11 @@
 			else
 				cnt = skb->len;

-			if (user)
+			if (user) {
+				spin_unlock_irqrestore(&eicon_lock, flags);
 				copy_to_user(p, skb->data, cnt);
+				spin_lock_irqsave(&eicon_lock, flags);
+			}
 			else
 				memcpy(p, skb->data, cnt);