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The driver for XillyUSB devices maintains a kref reference count on each xillyusb_dev structure, which represents a physical device. This reference count reaches zero when the device has been disconnected and there are no open file descriptors that are related to the device. When this occurs, kref_put() calls cleanup_dev(), which clears up the device's data, including the structure itself. However, when xillyusb_open() is called, this reference count becomes tricky: This function needs to obtain the xillyusb_dev structure that relates to the inode's major and minor (as there can be several such). xillybus_find_inode() (which is defined in xillybus_class.c) is called for this purpose. xillybus_find_inode() holds a mutex that is global in xillybus_class.c to protect the list of devices, and releases this mutex before returning. As a result, nothing protects the xillyusb_dev's reference counter from being decremented to zero before xillyusb_open() increments it on its own behalf. Hence the structure can be freed due to a rare race condition. To solve this, a mutex is added. It is locked by xillyusb_open() before the call to xillybus_find_inode() and is released only after the kref counter has been incremented on behalf of the newly opened inode. This protects the kref reference counters of all xillyusb_dev structs from being decremented by xillyusb_disconnect() during this time segment, as the call to kref_put() in this function is done with the same lock held. There is no need to hold the lock on other calls to kref_put(), because if xillybus_find_inode() finds a struct, xillyusb_disconnect() has not made the call to remove it, and hence not made its call to kref_put(), which takes place afterwards. Hence preventing xillyusb_disconnect's call to kref_put() is enough to ensure that the reference doesn't reach zero before it's incremented by xillyusb_open(). It would have been more natural to increment the reference count in xillybus_find_inode() of course, however this function is also called by Xillybus' driver for PCIe / OF, which registers a completely different structure. Therefore, xillybus_find_inode() treats these structures as void pointers, and accordingly can't make any changes. Reported-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Eli Billauer <eli.billauer@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221030094209.65916-1-eli.billauer@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
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| Kconfig | ||
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| xillybus_class.c | ||
| xillybus_class.h | ||
| xillybus_core.c | ||
| xillybus_of.c | ||
| xillybus_pcie.c | ||
| xillybus.h | ||
| xillyusb.c | ||