linux-kernel - Re: [driver-core PATCH v5 4/9] driver core: Move async_synchronize

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 06 Nov 2018 08:18:43 -0800
From:   Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, tj@...nel.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        jiangshanlai@...il.com, rafael@...nel.org, len.brown@...el.com,
        pavel@....cz, zwisler@...nel.org, dan.j.williams@...el.com,
        dave.jiang@...el.com
Subject: Re: [driver-core PATCH v5 4/9] driver core: Move
 async_synchronize_full call

On Mon, 2018-11-05 at 17:04 -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-11-05 at 13:11 -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> > This patch moves the async_synchronize_full call out of
> > __device_release_driver and into driver_detach.
> > 
> > The idea behind this is that the async_synchronize_full call will only
> > guarantee that any existing async operations are flushed. This doesn't do
> > anything to guarantee that a hotplug event that may occur while we are
> > doing the release of the driver will not be asynchronously scheduled.
> > 
> > By moving this into the driver_detach path we can avoid potential deadlocks
> > as we aren't holding the device lock at this point and we should not have
> > the driver we want to flush loaded so the flush will take care of any
> > asynchronous events the driver we are detaching might have scheduled.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/base/dd.c |    6 +++---
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
> > index 76c40fe69463..e74cefeb5b69 100644
> > --- a/drivers/base/dd.c
> > +++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
> > @@ -975,9 +975,6 @@ static void __device_release_driver(struct device *dev, struct device *parent)
> >  
> >  	drv = dev->driver;
> >  	if (drv) {
> > -		if (driver_allows_async_probing(drv))
> > -			async_synchronize_full();
> > -
> >  		while (device_links_busy(dev)) {
> >  			__device_driver_unlock(dev, parent);
> >  
> > @@ -1087,6 +1084,9 @@ void driver_detach(struct device_driver *drv)
> >  	struct device_private *dev_prv;
> >  	struct device *dev;
> >  
> > +	if (driver_allows_async_probing(drv))
> > +		async_synchronize_full();
> > +
> >  	for (;;) {
> >  		spin_lock(&drv->p->klist_devices.k_lock);
> >  		if (list_empty(&drv->p->klist_devices.k_list)) {
> 
> Have you considered to move that async_synchronize_full() call into
> bus_remove_driver()? Verifying the correctness of this patch requires to
> check whether the async_synchronize_full() comes after the
> klist_remove(&drv->p->knode_bus) call. That verification is easier when
> the async_synchronize_full() call occurs in bus_remove_driver() instead
> of in driver_detach().
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bart.

I considered it, however it ends up with things being more symmetric to
have use take care of synchronizing things in driver_detach since after
this patch set we are scheduling thing asynchronously in driver_attach.

Also I don't think it would be any great risk simply because calling
driver_detach with the driver still associated with the bus would be a
blatent error as it could easily lead to issues where you unbind a
driver but have it get hotplugged to a device while that is going on.

- Alex