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authorYishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>2015-08-13 18:32:03 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-09-29 19:26:16 +0200
commitce3e4e26260af851fb0188306c8bb47748955ef8 (patch)
tree08181249c4190f2801f6a29b8d7c00349327a570 /drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs.h
parent909246d01e085df6d6808fea35146910c0f30b09 (diff)
IB/uverbs: Fix race between ib_uverbs_open and remove_one
commit 35d4a0b63dc0c6d1177d4f532a9deae958f0662c upstream. Fixes: 2a72f212263701b927559f6850446421d5906c41 ("IB/uverbs: Remove dev_table") Before this commit there was a device look-up table that was protected by a spin_lock used by ib_uverbs_open and by ib_uverbs_remove_one. When it was dropped and container_of was used instead, it enabled the race with remove_one as dev might be freed just after: dev = container_of(inode->i_cdev, struct ib_uverbs_device, cdev) but before the kref_get. In addition, this buggy patch added some dead code as container_of(x,y,z) can never be NULL and so dev can never be NULL. As a result the comment above ib_uverbs_open saying "the open method will either immediately run -ENXIO" is wrong as it can never happen. The solution follows Jason Gunthorpe suggestion from below URL: https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org/msg25692.html cdev will hold a kref on the parent (the containing structure, ib_uverbs_device) and only when that kref is released it is guaranteed that open will never be called again. In addition, fixes the active count scheme to use an atomic not a kref to prevent WARN_ON as pointed by above comment from Jason. Signed-off-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Shachar Raindel <raindel@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs.h b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs.h
index b716b0815644..bebf11a6622a 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs.h
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs.h
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
*/
struct ib_uverbs_device {
- struct kref ref;
+ atomic_t refcount;
int num_comp_vectors;
struct completion comp;
struct device *dev;
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ struct ib_uverbs_device {
struct cdev cdev;
struct rb_root xrcd_tree;
struct mutex xrcd_tree_mutex;
+ struct kobject kobj;
};
struct ib_uverbs_event_file {