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authorJoern Engel <joern@logfs.org>2013-05-13 16:30:06 -0400
committerNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>2013-05-15 01:47:35 -0700
commitccf5ae83a6cf3d9cfe9a7038bfe7cd38ab03d5e1 (patch)
treecb3966328bce7584d4c24434490dc21a67ecb48b /include/linux/kref.h
parenta1321ddd27e65c6ada5b9a12cae4ee2612d76893 (diff)
target: close target_put_sess_cmd() vs. core_tmr_abort_task() race
It is possible for one thread to to take se_sess->sess_cmd_lock in core_tmr_abort_task() before taking a reference count on se_cmd->cmd_kref, while another thread in target_put_sess_cmd() drops se_cmd->cmd_kref before taking se_sess->sess_cmd_lock. This introduces kref_put_spinlock_irqsave() and uses it in target_put_sess_cmd() to close the race window. Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kref.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kref.h33
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kref.h b/include/linux/kref.h
index 4972e6e9ca93..7419c02085d7 100644
--- a/include/linux/kref.h
+++ b/include/linux/kref.h
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <linux/atomic.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
struct kref {
atomic_t refcount;
@@ -95,6 +96,38 @@ static inline int kref_put(struct kref *kref, void (*release)(struct kref *kref)
return kref_sub(kref, 1, release);
}
+/**
+ * kref_put_spinlock_irqsave - decrement refcount for object.
+ * @kref: object.
+ * @release: pointer to the function that will clean up the object when the
+ * last reference to the object is released.
+ * This pointer is required, and it is not acceptable to pass kfree
+ * in as this function.
+ * @lock: lock to take in release case
+ *
+ * Behaves identical to kref_put with one exception. If the reference count
+ * drops to zero, the lock will be taken atomically wrt dropping the reference
+ * count. The release function has to call spin_unlock() without _irqrestore.
+ */
+static inline int kref_put_spinlock_irqsave(struct kref *kref,
+ void (*release)(struct kref *kref),
+ spinlock_t *lock)
+{
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ WARN_ON(release == NULL);
+ if (atomic_add_unless(&kref->refcount, -1, 1))
+ return 0;
+ spin_lock_irqsave(lock, flags);
+ if (atomic_dec_and_test(&kref->refcount)) {
+ release(kref);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
+ return 1;
+ }
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(lock, flags);
+ return 0;
+}
+
static inline int kref_put_mutex(struct kref *kref,
void (*release)(struct kref *kref),
struct mutex *lock)