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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Muchun Song <smuchun@gmail.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, rafael@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	zhaowuyun@wingtech.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: Fix use-after-free and double free on glue directory
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 13:10:19 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a37e7a49c3e7fa6ece2be2b76798fef3e51ade4e.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPSr9jHhwASv7=83hU+81mC0JJyuyt2gGxLmyzpCOfmc9vKgGQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2019-04-25 at 23:44 +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> I agree with you that the looking up of the glue dir and creation of its child
> should be protected by the same lock of gdp_mutex. So, do you agree with
> the fix of the following code snippet?

The basic idea yes, the whole bool *locked is horrid though. Wouldn't it
work to have a get_device_parent_locked that always returns with the mutex held,
or just move the mutex to the caller or something simpler like this ?

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-28 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-23 14:32 Muchun Song
2019-04-25  9:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2019-04-25 15:44   ` Muchun Song
2019-04-28 10:10     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2019-04-28 14:49       ` Muchun Song
2019-05-02  6:25         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2019-05-04 14:47           ` Muchun Song
2019-05-04 15:34             ` Greg KH
2019-05-09 14:38               ` Gaurav Kohli
2019-05-09 23:22                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2019-05-10  3:31                   ` Gaurav Kohli
2019-05-14 10:56             ` Mukesh Ojha
2019-05-14 10:59               ` Prateek Sood
2019-05-14 11:51                 ` Muchun Song

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