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authorVladis Dronov <vdronov@redhat.com>2019-12-27 03:26:27 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-12-30 20:19:27 -0800
commita33121e5487b424339636b25c35d3a180eaa5f5e (patch)
tree3eb51e254b2b556f109552d2e78311e8f89545f8 /include/linux/posix-clock.h
parent54fa49ee88138756df0fcf867cb1849904710a8c (diff)
ptp: fix the race between the release of ptp_clock and cdev
In a case when a ptp chardev (like /dev/ptp0) is open but an underlying device is removed, closing this file leads to a race. This reproduces easily in a kvm virtual machine: ts# cat openptp0.c int main() { ... fp = fopen("/dev/ptp0", "r"); ... sleep(10); } ts# uname -r 5.5.0-rc3-46cf053e ts# cat /proc/cmdline ... slub_debug=FZP ts# modprobe ptp_kvm ts# ./openptp0 & [1] 670 opened /dev/ptp0, sleeping 10s... ts# rmmod ptp_kvm ts# ls /dev/ptp* ls: cannot access '/dev/ptp*': No such file or directory ts# ...woken up [ 48.010809] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 48.012502] CPU: 6 PID: 658 Comm: openptp0 Not tainted 5.5.0-rc3-46cf053e #25 [ 48.014624] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), ... [ 48.016270] RIP: 0010:module_put.part.0+0x7/0x80 [ 48.017939] RSP: 0018:ffffb3850073be00 EFLAGS: 00010202 [ 48.018339] RAX: 000000006b6b6b6b RBX: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b RCX: ffff89a476c00ad0 [ 48.018936] RDX: fffff65a08d3ea08 RSI: 0000000000000247 RDI: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b [ 48.019470] ... ^^^ a slub poison [ 48.023854] Call Trace: [ 48.024050] __fput+0x21f/0x240 [ 48.024288] task_work_run+0x79/0x90 [ 48.024555] do_exit+0x2af/0xab0 [ 48.024799] ? vfs_write+0x16a/0x190 [ 48.025082] do_group_exit+0x35/0x90 [ 48.025387] __x64_sys_exit_group+0xf/0x10 [ 48.025737] do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x130 [ 48.026056] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 [ 48.026479] RIP: 0033:0x7f53b12082f6 [ 48.026792] ... [ 48.030945] Modules linked in: ptp i6300esb watchdog [last unloaded: ptp_kvm] [ 48.045001] Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed! This happens in: static void __fput(struct file *file) { ... if (file->f_op->release) file->f_op->release(inode, file); <<< cdev is kfree'd here if (unlikely(S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode) && inode->i_cdev != NULL && !(mode & FMODE_PATH))) { cdev_put(inode->i_cdev); <<< cdev fields are accessed here Namely: __fput() posix_clock_release() kref_put(&clk->kref, delete_clock) <<< the last reference delete_clock() delete_ptp_clock() kfree(ptp) <<< cdev is embedded in ptp cdev_put module_put(p->owner) <<< *p is kfree'd, bang! Here cdev is embedded in posix_clock which is embedded in ptp_clock. The race happens because ptp_clock's lifetime is controlled by two refcounts: kref and cdev.kobj in posix_clock. This is wrong. Make ptp_clock's sysfs device a parent of cdev with cdev_device_add() created especially for such cases. This way the parent device with its ptp_clock is not released until all references to the cdev are released. This adds a requirement that an initialized but not exposed struct device should be provided to posix_clock_register() by a caller instead of a simple dev_t. This approach was adopted from the commit 72139dfa2464 ("watchdog: Fix the race between the release of watchdog_core_data and cdev"). See details of the implementation in the commit 233ed09d7fda ("chardev: add helper function to register char devs with a struct device"). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20191125125342.6189-1-vdronov@redhat.com/T/#u Analyzed-by: Stephen Johnston <sjohnsto@redhat.com> Analyzed-by: Vern Lovejoy <vlovejoy@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Vladis Dronov <vdronov@redhat.com> Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/posix-clock.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/posix-clock.h19
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/posix-clock.h b/include/linux/posix-clock.h
index fe6cfdcfbc26..468328b1e1dd 100644
--- a/include/linux/posix-clock.h
+++ b/include/linux/posix-clock.h
@@ -69,29 +69,32 @@ struct posix_clock_operations {
*
* @ops: Functional interface to the clock
* @cdev: Character device instance for this clock
- * @kref: Reference count.
+ * @dev: Pointer to the clock's device.
* @rwsem: Protects the 'zombie' field from concurrent access.
* @zombie: If 'zombie' is true, then the hardware has disappeared.
- * @release: A function to free the structure when the reference count reaches
- * zero. May be NULL if structure is statically allocated.
*
* Drivers should embed their struct posix_clock within a private
* structure, obtaining a reference to it during callbacks using
* container_of().
+ *
+ * Drivers should supply an initialized but not exposed struct device
+ * to posix_clock_register(). It is used to manage lifetime of the
+ * driver's private structure. It's 'release' field should be set to
+ * a release function for this private structure.
*/
struct posix_clock {
struct posix_clock_operations ops;
struct cdev cdev;
- struct kref kref;
+ struct device *dev;
struct rw_semaphore rwsem;
bool zombie;
- void (*release)(struct posix_clock *clk);
};
/**
* posix_clock_register() - register a new clock
- * @clk: Pointer to the clock. Caller must provide 'ops' and 'release'
- * @devid: Allocated device id
+ * @clk: Pointer to the clock. Caller must provide 'ops' field
+ * @dev: Pointer to the initialized device. Caller must provide
+ * 'release' field
*
* A clock driver calls this function to register itself with the
* clock device subsystem. If 'clk' points to dynamically allocated
@@ -100,7 +103,7 @@ struct posix_clock {
*
* Returns zero on success, non-zero otherwise.
*/
-int posix_clock_register(struct posix_clock *clk, dev_t devid);
+int posix_clock_register(struct posix_clock *clk, struct device *dev);
/**
* posix_clock_unregister() - unregister a clock