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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: races in drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c, leak fix in the same file
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:20:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060426062048.GG27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)

activate_ep_files() allocates a bunch of ep_data, creates inodes and
dentries for them and sticks them into a cyclic list.  inode->u.generic_ip
is set to created ep_data, refcount is 1.

destroy_ep_files() goes through that cyclic list, gets dentry from each
ep_data on it and drops ep_data.  Then it kills dentry and inode by
                /* break link to dcache */
                mutex_lock (&parent->i_mutex);
                d_delete (dentry);
                dput (dentry);
                mutex_unlock (&parent->i_mutex);
Tries to kill, anyway.  The thing is, ep_open() (->open() on that sucker)
does
static int
ep_open (struct inode *inode, struct file *fd)
{
        struct ep_data          *data = inode->u.generic_ip;
        int                     value = -EBUSY;

        if (down_interruptible (&data->lock) != 0)
                return -EINTR;
followed eventually by pinning data (i.e. ep_data for that inode) down.

It's way too late - by the time we enter ep_open(), inode->u.generic_ip
might be already pointing to freed memory.

AFAICS, the cheapest way to deal with that would be to set ->u.generic_ip
to NULL before dropping ep_data in ep_destroy_files(), have that done
under global spinlock and have ep_open() et.al. start with checking if
the pointer is NULL under the same spinlock and grabbing a reference if
it isn't.

There's another question: opened files are opened; what protects them
from gadgetfs_unbind() freeing ep->req while ep is still pinned down
by an opened file?  We do not hold dev->lock or ep->lock there...

One more: what protects dev->state?  I don't see any lock that would
be held over all places that modify it.

Oh, and a trivial leak fix, while we are at it:

Subject: [PATCH] fix leak in activate_ep_files()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

---

 drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

676113fa9fe777d13904017f8da5ae04c214567f
diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c
index 42b4570..0eb010a 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c
@@ -1614,6 +1614,7 @@ static int activate_ep_files (struct dev
 				data, &ep_config_operations,
 				&data->dentry);
 		if (!data->inode) {
+			usb_ep_free_request(ep, data->req);
 			kfree (data);
 			goto enomem;
 		}
-- 
1.3.0.g0080f


             reply	other threads:[~2006-04-26  6:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-26  6:20 Al Viro [this message]
2006-05-22 19:28 ` David Brownell

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