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[PATCH] dvb: core: fix race condition in FE_READ_STATUS ioctl
authorPeter Beutner <p.beutner@gmx.net>
Fri, 8 Jul 2005 00:57:36 +0000 (17:57 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Fri, 8 Jul 2005 01:23:53 +0000 (18:23 -0700)
Fix a race condition where an application which issued a FE_READ_STATUS ioctl
directly after FE_SET_FRONTEND would see an old status, i.e.  FE_READ_STATUS
would be executed before the frontend thread has even seen the tungin request
from FE_SET_FRONTEND.

Signed-off-by: Peter Beutner <p.beutner@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c

index f11daae91cd4e07ce54bdb375f5f10aed22aa104..e561ac1e1b16e6659252f61d4cf419e92e533602 100644 (file)
@@ -626,11 +626,21 @@ static int dvb_frontend_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
                break;
        }
 
-       case FE_READ_STATUS:
+       case FE_READ_STATUS: {
+               fe_status_t* status = parg;
+
+               /* if retune was requested but hasn't occured yet, prevent
+                * that user get signal state from previous tuning */
+               if(fepriv->state == FESTATE_RETUNE) {
+                       err=0;
+                       *status = 0;
+                       break;
+               }
+
                if (fe->ops->read_status)
-                       err = fe->ops->read_status(fe, (fe_status_t*) parg);
+                       err = fe->ops->read_status(fe, status);
                break;
-
+       }
        case FE_READ_BER:
                if (fe->ops->read_ber)
                        err = fe->ops->read_ber(fe, (__u32*) parg);