can: gs_usb: change active_channels's type from atomic_t to u8
authorVincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr>
Mon, 14 Feb 2022 23:48:14 +0000 (08:48 +0900)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 8 Mar 2022 18:12:47 +0000 (19:12 +0100)
commit2b04bb51a9c10e3f7400dcb67db2b70c60eb5a9a
treea7bc1137b31b22002daaeee343babce884816648
parentb6149efc57bff87f8310134e3f65311cb2c94ac4
can: gs_usb: change active_channels's type from atomic_t to u8

commit 035b0fcf02707d3c9c2890dc1484b11aa5335eb1 upstream.

The driver uses an atomic_t variable: gs_usb:active_channels to keep
track of the number of opened channels in order to only allocate
memory for the URBs when this count changes from zero to one.

However, the driver does not decrement the counter when an error
occurs in gs_can_open(). This issue is fixed by changing the type from
atomic_t to u8 and by simplifying the logic accordingly.

It is safe to use an u8 here because the network stack big kernel lock
(a.k.a. rtnl_mutex) is being hold. For details, please refer to [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/CAMZ6Rq+sHpiw34ijPsmp7vbUpDtJwvVtdV7CvRZJsLixjAFfrg@mail.gmail.com/T/#t

Fixes: d08e973a77d1 ("can: gs_usb: Added support for the GS_USB CAN devices")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220214234814.1321599-1-mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr
Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c