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Message-ID: <20221102185030.GA2026081@roeck-us.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2022 11:50:30 -0700
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To: "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
Amit Kucheria <amitk@...nel.org>,
Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] thermal/core: Protect thermal device operations
against removal
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 06:09:01AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Accesses to thermal zones, and with it to thermal zone device operations,
> are still possible after the thermal zone device has been unregistered.
> For example, thermal_zone_get_temp() can be called from temp_show()
> in thermal_sysfs.c if the sysfs attribute was opened before the thermal
> device was unregistered. This is problematic and may result in crashes
> since the operations data structure and the underlying code may be gone
> when the calls are made.
>
> The following series solves the problem by protecting accesses to thermal
> device operations with the thermal device mutex, and by verifying that the
> thermal device is still registered after the mutex has been acquired.
>
> This was previously sent as RFC/RFT as single patch [1]. The code was reworked
> to match thermal subsystem changes made between v6.0 and v6.1, and it was
> split into several patches to simplify review.
>
Any thoughts / comments / feedback on this series ?
Thanks,
Guenter
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20221004033936.1047691-1-linux@roeck-us.net/
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Guenter Roeck (9):
> thermal/core: Destroy thermal zone device mutex in release function
> thermal/core: Delete device under thermal device zone lock
> thermal/core: Ensure that thermal device is registered in thermal_zone_get_temp
> thermal/core: Move parameter validation from __thermal_zone_get_temp to thermal_zone_get_temp
> thermal/core: Introduce locked version of thermal_zone_device_update
> thermal/core: Protect hwmon accesses to thermal operations with thermal zone mutex
> thermal/core: Protect sysfs accesses to thermal operations with thermal zone mutex
> thermal/core: Remove thermal_zone_set_trips()
> thermal/core: Protect thermal device operations against thermal device removal
>
> drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
> drivers/thermal/thermal_core.h | 3 +-
> drivers/thermal/thermal_helpers.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c | 14 +++++--
> drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> 5 files changed, 169 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
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