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authorNaresh Solanki <naresh.solanki@9elements.com>2024-01-04 19:43:13 +0530
committerMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>2024-01-04 20:02:06 +0000
commit1cadc04c1a1ac5015c2eb0fadfabf4b61bbe167e (patch)
treeef26b1d4ed61031079e93c1a68c8fcb1ae3a932a
parent51088e5cc241178ccd6db2dd6d161dc8df32057d (diff)
regulator: event: Ensure atomicity for sequence number
Previously, the sequence number in the regulator event subsystem was updated without atomic operations, potentially leading to race conditions. This commit addresses the issue by making the sequence number atomic. Signed-off-by: Naresh Solanki <naresh.solanki@9elements.com> Link: https://msgid.link/r/20240104141314.3337037-1-naresh.solanki@9elements.com Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/regulator/event.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/regulator/event.c b/drivers/regulator/event.c
index 0ec58f306b38..ea3bd49544e8 100644
--- a/drivers/regulator/event.c
+++ b/drivers/regulator/event.c
@@ -8,10 +8,11 @@
#include <regulator/regulator.h>
#include <net/netlink.h>
#include <net/genetlink.h>
+#include <linux/atomic.h>
#include "regnl.h"
-static unsigned int reg_event_seqnum;
+static atomic_t reg_event_seqnum = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
static const struct genl_multicast_group reg_event_mcgrps[] = {
{ .name = REG_GENL_MCAST_GROUP_NAME, },
@@ -43,9 +44,8 @@ int reg_generate_netlink_event(const char *reg_name, u64 event)
return -ENOMEM;
/* add the genetlink message header */
- msg_header = genlmsg_put(skb, 0, reg_event_seqnum++,
- &reg_event_genl_family, 0,
- REG_GENL_CMD_EVENT);
+ msg_header = genlmsg_put(skb, 0, atomic_inc_return(&reg_event_seqnum),
+ &reg_event_genl_family, 0, REG_GENL_CMD_EVENT);
if (!msg_header) {
nlmsg_free(skb);
return -ENOMEM;