From: Yonghua Zheng Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 06:16:10 +0000 (+0800) Subject: HID: hidraw: fix improper mutex release X-Git-Tag: v3.11-rc4~14^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8e552e535948fe8612d36a7beaf19519140bc285;p=profile%2Fivi%2Fkernel-x86-ivi.git HID: hidraw: fix improper mutex release Mutex can not be released unless all hid_device members are properly initialized. Otherwise it would result in a race condition that can cause NULL pointer kernel panic issue in hidraw_open where it uses uninitialized 'list' member in list_add_tail(). Signed-off-by: Yonghua Zheng Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- diff --git a/drivers/hid/hidraw.c b/drivers/hid/hidraw.c index a745163..6f1feb2 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hidraw.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hidraw.c @@ -518,7 +518,6 @@ int hidraw_connect(struct hid_device *hid) goto out; } - mutex_unlock(&minors_lock); init_waitqueue_head(&dev->wait); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->list); @@ -528,6 +527,7 @@ int hidraw_connect(struct hid_device *hid) dev->exist = 1; hid->hidraw = dev; + mutex_unlock(&minors_lock); out: return result;