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SubjectRe: [PATCH v9 2/2] uio: Fix uio driver to refcount device
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> On 8 Jun 2015, at 20:25, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:59:22PM +0000, Brian Russell wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 23/03/15 20:41, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 02:54:44PM +0000, Brian Russell wrote:
>>>> Protect uio driver from its owner being unplugged while there are open fds.
>>>> Embed struct device in struct uio_device, use refcounting on device, free
>>>> uio_device on release.
>>>> info struct passed in uio_register_device can be freed on unregister, so null
>>>> out the field in uio_unregister_device and check accesses.
>>>
>>> That's really not protecting anything except heavy-handed problems...
>>>
>>> Look at the code:
>>>
>>>> @@ -493,7 +499,7 @@ static unsigned int uio_poll(struct file *filep, poll_table *wait)
>>>> struct uio_listener *listener = filep->private_data;
>>>> struct uio_device *idev = listener->dev;
>>>>
>>>> - if (!idev->info->irq)
>>>> + if (!idev->info || !idev->info->irq)
>>>> return -EIO;
>>>
>>> Great, you checked the irq value, but what if it changes the very next
>>> line:
>>>
>>>> poll_wait(filep, &idev->wait, wait);
>>>
>>> Or any other line within this function? Or any other function that you
>>> try to check the value for in the beginning...
>>>
>>> This really isn't protecting anything "properly", sorry. Either we
>>> don't care about it (hint, I don't think we really do), or we need to
>>> properly lock things and check, and protect, things that way.
>>
>> The checks for irq value are already there. I added the checks for the
>> idev->info ptr and deliberately nulled it in uio_unregister_device as
>> the caller module may free uio_info after unregistering (dpdk's igb_uio
>> does anyway) and then release will be called later when fds are closed.
>>
>> So I think I definitely need the check in uio_release. I didn't think
>> it hurt to return early from poll/read/write if we know the device
>> has been unregistered?
>
> What is the final verdict on this patch ? We are seeing the crash in our
> system, and I would like to apply a 'final' patch if possible to get it
> fixed.
>
It needs a bit more work. uio_info needs to live as long as the corresponding uio_device. Since they seem to always be 1:1, uio_info could embedded within uio_device (but then all the users of uio need changed) or uio_info could be a refcounted object.

Brian

> Thanks,
> Guenter


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