USB: appledisplay: fix race between reading and writing from the device

The workqueue handler may call appledisplay_bl_get_brightness() while
user space calls appledisplay_bl_update_status(). As they share a
buffer that must not happen. Use a mutex for mutual exclusion.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c

@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ struct appledisplay {
 	struct delayed_work work;
 	int button_pressed;
 	spinlock_t lock;
+	struct mutex sysfslock;		/* concurrent read and write */
 };
 
 static atomic_t count_displays = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
@@ -144,6 +145,7 @@ static int appledisplay_bl_update_status(struct backlight_device *bd)
 	struct appledisplay *pdata = bl_get_data(bd);
 	int retval;
 
+	mutex_lock(&pdata->sysfslock);
 	pdata->msgdata[0] = 0x10;
 	pdata->msgdata[1] = bd->props.brightness;
 
@@ -156,15 +158,17 @@ static int appledisplay_bl_update_status(struct backlight_device *bd)
 		0,
 		pdata->msgdata, 2,
 		ACD_USB_TIMEOUT);
-
+	mutex_unlock(&pdata->sysfslock);
+	
 	return retval;
 }
 
 static int appledisplay_bl_get_brightness(struct backlight_device *bd)
 {
 	struct appledisplay *pdata = bl_get_data(bd);
-	int retval;
+	int retval, brightness;
 
+	mutex_lock(&pdata->sysfslock);
 	retval = usb_control_msg(
 		pdata->udev,
 		usb_rcvctrlpipe(pdata->udev, 0),
@@ -174,11 +178,13 @@ static int appledisplay_bl_get_brightness(struct backlight_device *bd)
 		0,
 		pdata->msgdata, 2,
 		ACD_USB_TIMEOUT);
+	brightness = pdata->msgdata[1];
+	mutex_unlock(&pdata->sysfslock);
 
 	if (retval < 0)
 		return retval;
 	else
-		return pdata->msgdata[1];
+		return brightness;
 }
 
 static const struct backlight_ops appledisplay_bl_data = {
@@ -241,6 +247,7 @@ static int appledisplay_probe(struct usb_interface *iface,
 
 	spin_lock_init(&pdata->lock);
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&pdata->work, appledisplay_work);
+	mutex_init(&pdata->sysfslock);
 
 	/* Allocate buffer for control messages */
 	pdata->msgdata = kmalloc(ACD_MSG_BUFFER_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);