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Message-ID: <1543950509.185366.197.camel@acm.org>
Date:   Tue, 04 Dec 2018 11:08:29 -0800
From:   Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
To:     Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>, mingo@...hat.com
Cc:     peterz@...radead.org, tj@...nel.org, johannes.berg@...el.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 16/24] locking/lockdep: Retain the class key and name
 while freeing a lock class

On Tue, 2018-12-04 at 13:57 -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 12/03/2018 07:28 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > The next patch in this series uses the class name in code that
> > detects lock class use-after-free. Hence retain the class name for
> > lock classes that are being freed.
> > 
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> > Cc: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
> > Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
> > ---
> >  kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 4 +---
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
> > index ecd92969674c..92bdb187987f 100644
> > --- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
> > +++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
> > @@ -4147,10 +4147,8 @@ static void zap_class(struct lock_class *class)
> >  	 * Unhash the class and remove it from the all_lock_classes list:
> >  	 */
> >  	hlist_del_rcu(&class->hash_entry);
> > +	class->hash_entry.pprev = NULL;
> >  	list_del(&class->lock_entry);
> > -page 
> > -	RCU_INIT_POINTER(class->key, NULL);
> > -	RCU_INIT_POINTER(class->name, NULL);
> >  }
> >  
> >  static inline int within(const void *addr, void *start, unsigned long size)
> 
> Using the name after module unload can be problematic if it points to
> memory space occupied by the unloaded kernel module. The memory page may
> be invalid with the potential of crashing the kernel. You may have to
> duplicate the name if it is really from the module address space.

The class name shouldn't be used by any of the code I introduced in the
lockdep infrastructure after unloading a kernel module finished unless if
some of the kernel module code is still running after unloading the kernel
module finished. I think if that happens that the kernel module author is
to blame and not lockdep :-)

Bart.