From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] anon_inodes: use fops->owner for module refcount
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:16:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812021116.03143.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200812021114.59050.borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
There is an imbalance for anonymous inodes. If the fops->owner field is set,
the module reference count of owner is decreases on release.
("filp_close" --> "__fput" ---> "fops_put")
On the other hand, anon_inode_getfd does not increase the module reference
count of owner. This causes two problems:
- if owner is set, the module refcount goes negative
- if owner is not set, the module can be unloaded while code is running
This patch changes anon_inode_getfd to be symmetric regarding fops->owner
handling.
I have checked all existing users of anon_inode_getfd. Noone sets fops->owner,
thats why nobody has seen the module refcount negative. The refcounting was
tested with a patched and unpatched KVM module.(see patch 2/2) I also did an
epoll_open/close test.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
---
fs/anon_inodes.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: kvm/fs/anon_inodes.c
===================================================================
--- kvm.orig/fs/anon_inodes.c
+++ kvm/fs/anon_inodes.c
@@ -79,9 +79,12 @@ int anon_inode_getfd(const char *name, c
if (IS_ERR(anon_inode_inode))
return -ENODEV;
+ if (fops->owner && !try_module_get(fops->owner))
+ return -ENOENT;
+
error = get_unused_fd_flags(flags);
if (error < 0)
- return error;
+ goto err_module;
fd = error;
/*
@@ -128,6 +131,8 @@ err_dput:
dput(dentry);
err_put_unused_fd:
put_unused_fd(fd);
+err_module:
+ module_put(fops->owner);
return error;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(anon_inode_getfd);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-02 10:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-02 10:14 [PATCH 0/2] module_refcounting and anonymous inodes Christian Borntraeger
2008-12-02 10:16 ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2008-12-02 10:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] kvm: set owner of cpu and vm file operations Christian Borntraeger
2008-12-08 11:51 ` [PATCH 0/2] module_refcounting and anonymous inodes Christian Borntraeger
2008-12-08 11:57 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-09 9:43 ` Sheng Yang
2008-12-09 9:51 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-09 10:08 ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-12-09 10:15 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-09 13:22 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-10 2:05 ` Sheng Yang
2008-12-10 9:12 ` Avi Kivity
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