linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] libata: add refcounting to ata

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Date:   Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:29:38 -0700
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Taras Kondratiuk <takondra@...co.com>
Cc:     Lin Ming <minggr@...il.com>, xe-linux-external@...co.com,
        linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: add refcounting to ata_host

On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 08:34:41AM +0000, Taras Kondratiuk wrote:
> After commit 9a6d6a2ddabb ("ata: make ata port as parent device of scsi
> host") manual driver unbind/remove causes use-after-free.
> 
> Unbind unconditionally invokes devres_release_all() which calls
> ata_host_release() and frees ata_host/ata_port memory while it is still
> being referenced as a parent of SCSI host. When SCSI host is finally
> released scsi_host_dev_release() calls put_device(parent) and accesses
> freed ata_port memory.
> 
> Add reference counting to make sure that ata_host lives long enough.
> 
> Bug report: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/1/945
> Fixes: 9a6d6a2ddabb ("ata: make ata port as parent device of scsi host")
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Cc: Lin Ming <minggr@...il.com>
> Cc: linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Taras Kondratiuk <takondra@...co.com>

Applied to libata/for-4.17.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun