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klist: del waiter from klist_remove_waiters before wakeup waitting process

There is a race between klist_remove and klist_release. klist_remove
uses a local var waiter saved on stack. When klist_release calls
wake_up_process(waiter->process) to wake up the waiter, waiter might run
immediately and reuse the stack. Then, klist_release calls
list_del(&waiter->list) to change previous
wait data and cause prior waiter thread corrupt.

The patch fixes it against kernel 3.9.

Signed-off-by: wang, biao <biao.wang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
wang, biao 12 years ago
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      lib/klist.c

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lib/klist.c

@@ -193,10 +193,10 @@ static void klist_release(struct kref *kref)
 		if (waiter->node != n)
 			continue;
 
+		list_del(&waiter->list);
 		waiter->woken = 1;
 		mb();
 		wake_up_process(waiter->process);
-		list_del(&waiter->list);
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&klist_remove_lock);
 	knode_set_klist(n, NULL);