Re: [PATCH v6 05/10] tpm: device class for tpm

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 02:49:49PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
  
> +static void tpm_dev_release(struct device *dev)
> +{
> +}
> +

These patches are so close to actually fixing many of the use-after-free
problems too :)

>  int tpm_dev_add_device(struct tpm_chip *chip)
>  {
>  	int rc;
>  
> -	chip->vendor.miscdev.fops = &tpm_fops;
> +	chip->dev.class = tpm_class;
> +	chip->dev.release = tpm_dev_release;
> +	chip->dev.parent = chip->pdev;
> +	dev_set_name(&chip->dev, chip->devname);
> +	rc = device_register(&chip->dev);

I think all of this should live in tpm-chip.c

I would also suggest using device_initialize during tpmm_alloc_chip
and device_add + cdev_add during tpm_register. That way the dev member
is always valid and we can immediately use put_device to do the free and
devm just does put_device.

>  void tpm_dev_del_device(struct tpm_chip *chip)
>  {
> -	if (chip->vendor.miscdev.name)
> -		misc_deregister(&chip->vendor.miscdev);
> +	if (get_device(&chip->dev) != NULL) {
> +		cdev_del(&chip->cdev);
> +		device_unregister(&chip->dev);
> +		put_device(&chip->dev);
> +	}

The get/put seems oddly placed - really the caller of del_device must
be holding the ref I don't see that del_device needs it..

Ultimately we want things so that when the ref count goes to 0 then
the chip will be freed - this means that get_device can never fail
since chip->dev will be deallocated memory.

> +struct class *tpm_class;
> +dev_t tpm_devt;

Also makes more sense to me in chip-chip

Jason