dahdi-linux/include
Shaun Ruffell 761e02da52 dahdi: Protect echocan creation/destruction with mutex.
This closes a reference and memory leak when multiple CPUs are enabling echocan
on a single channel in parallel.

The essential problem is that the call to try_module_get() is not serialized.
Two separate threads can come into ioctl_echocan() on the same channel, they
coordinate via the dahdi_chan.lock to release any current echocan, but then both
create a new echocan state, bump the reference on the module, and the last one
through will actually attach the new state to the channel. The earlier reference
/ memory is leaked.

I tried to conceive of a way to fix this leak without adding a new lock, but the
choices where calling throught the function pointers with dahdi_chan.lock.
Otherwise I needed to change the semantics of echocan_create /free which would
ripple through the hardware echocan modules.

Signed-off-by: Shaun Ruffell <sruffell@digium.com>
Signed-off-by: Russ Meyerriecks <rmeyerriecks@digium.com>
2014-06-20 13:01:27 -05:00
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dahdi dahdi: Protect echocan creation/destruction with mutex. 2014-06-20 13:01:27 -05:00