linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] rpmsg: char: Fix race between the release of rpmsg

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Message-ID: <YbFYp71DhBNW7trt@google.com>
Date:   Wed, 8 Dec 2021 17:15:19 -0800
From:   Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
To:     Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>
Cc:     Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>, Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com>,
        Sibi Sankar <sibis@...eaurora.org>,
        Sujit Kautkar <sujitka@...omium.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        linux-remoteproc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] rpmsg: char: Fix race between the release of
 rpmsg_ctrldev and cdev

On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 05:05:29PM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Matthias Kaehlcke (2021-12-08 12:52:28)
> > From: Sujit Kautkar <sujitka@...omium.org>
> >
> > From: Sujit Kautkar <sujitka@...omium.org>
> 
> This is here twice. Remove one?

Ah, forgot that tools add that automatically and added a manual entry.

Ohad/Bjorn/Mathieu: assuming there are no other comments, do you want me
to resend this patch or can you remove the extra tag when applying it?

> > struct rpmsg_ctrldev contains a struct cdev. The current code frees
> > the rpmsg_ctrldev struct in rpmsg_ctrldev_release_device(), but the
> > cdev is a managed object, therefore its release is not predictable
> > and the rpmsg_ctrldev could be freed before the cdev is entirely
> > released, as in the backtrace below.
> >
> > [   93.625603] ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x7c
> > [   93.636115] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 12 at lib/debugobjects.c:488 debug_print_object+0x13c/0x1b0
> > [   93.644799] Modules linked in: veth xt_cgroup xt_MASQUERADE rfcomm algif_hash algif_skcipher af_alg uinput ip6table_nat fuse uvcvideo videobuf2_vmalloc venus_enc venus_dec videobuf2_dma_contig hci_uart btandroid btqca snd_soc_rt5682_i2c bluetooth qcom_spmi_temp_alarm snd_soc_rt5682v
> > [   93.715175] CPU: 0 PID: 12 Comm: kworker/0:1 Tainted: G    B             5.4.163-lockdep #26
> > [   93.723855] Hardware name: Google Lazor (rev3 - 8) with LTE (DT)
> > [   93.730055] Workqueue: events kobject_delayed_cleanup
> > [   93.735271] pstate: 60c00009 (nZCv daif +PAN +UAO)
> > [   93.740216] pc : debug_print_object+0x13c/0x1b0
> > [   93.744890] lr : debug_print_object+0x13c/0x1b0
> > [   93.749555] sp : ffffffacf5bc7940
> > [   93.752978] x29: ffffffacf5bc7940 x28: dfffffd000000000
> > [   93.758448] x27: ffffffacdb11a800 x26: dfffffd000000000
> > [   93.763916] x25: ffffffd0734f856c x24: dfffffd000000000
> > [   93.769389] x23: 0000000000000000 x22: ffffffd0733c35b0
> > [   93.774860] x21: ffffffd0751994a0 x20: ffffffd075ec27c0
> > [   93.780338] x19: ffffffd075199100 x18: 00000000000276e0
> > [   93.785814] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: dfffffd000000000
> > [   93.791291] x15: ffffffffffffffff x14: 6e6968207473696c
> > [   93.796768] x13: 0000000000000000 x12: ffffffd075e2b000
> > [   93.802244] x11: 0000000000000001 x10: 0000000000000000
> > [   93.807723] x9 : d13400dff1921900 x8 : d13400dff1921900
> > [   93.813200] x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
> > [   93.818676] x5 : 0000000000000080 x4 : 0000000000000000
> > [   93.824152] x3 : ffffffd0732a0fa4 x2 : 0000000000000001
> > [   93.829628] x1 : ffffffacf5bc7580 x0 : 0000000000000061
> > [   93.835104] Call trace:
> > [   93.837644]  debug_print_object+0x13c/0x1b0
> > [   93.841963]  __debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x25c/0x3c0
> > [   93.846987]  debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x18/0x20
> > [   93.851669]  slab_free_freelist_hook+0xbc/0x1e4
> > [   93.856346]  kfree+0xfc/0x2f4
> > [   93.859416]  rpmsg_ctrldev_release_device+0x78/0xb8
> > [   93.864445]  device_release+0x84/0x168
> > [   93.868310]  kobject_cleanup+0x12c/0x298
> > [   93.872356]  kobject_delayed_cleanup+0x10/0x18
> > [   93.876948]  process_one_work+0x578/0x92c
> > [   93.881086]  worker_thread+0x804/0xcf8
> > [   93.884963]  kthread+0x2a8/0x314
> > [   93.888303]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
> >
> > The cdev_device_add/del() API was created to address this issue
> > (see commit 233ed09d7fda), use it instead of cdev add/del().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sujit Kautkar <sujitka@...omium.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
> > ---
> 
> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>

Thanks!