Patch "driver core: fix race between creating/querying glue dir and its cleanup" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    driver core: fix race between creating/querying glue dir and its cleanup

to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     driver-core-fix-race-between-creating-querying-glue-dir-and-its-cleanup.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From cebf8fd16900fdfd58c0028617944f808f97fe50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 19:27:36 +0800
Subject: driver core: fix race between creating/querying glue dir and its cleanup

From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>

commit cebf8fd16900fdfd58c0028617944f808f97fe50 upstream.

The global mutex of 'gdp_mutex' is used to serialize creating/querying
glue dir and its cleanup. Turns out it isn't a perfect way because
part(kobj_kset_leave()) of the actual cleanup action() is done inside
the release handler of the glue dir kobject. That means gdp_mutex has
to be held before releasing the last reference count of the glue dir
kobject.

This patch moves glue dir's cleanup after kobject_del() in device_del()
for avoiding the race.

Cc: Yijing Wang <wangyijing@huawei.com>
Reported-by: Chandra Sekhar Lingutla <clingutla@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/base/core.c |   39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -836,11 +836,29 @@ static struct kobject *get_device_parent
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+static inline bool live_in_glue_dir(struct kobject *kobj,
+				    struct device *dev)
+{
+	if (!kobj || !dev->class ||
+	    kobj->kset != &dev->class->p->glue_dirs)
+		return false;
+	return true;
+}
+
+static inline struct kobject *get_glue_dir(struct device *dev)
+{
+	return dev->kobj.parent;
+}
+
+/*
+ * make sure cleaning up dir as the last step, we need to make
+ * sure .release handler of kobject is run with holding the
+ * global lock
+ */
 static void cleanup_glue_dir(struct device *dev, struct kobject *glue_dir)
 {
 	/* see if we live in a "glue" directory */
-	if (!glue_dir || !dev->class ||
-	    glue_dir->kset != &dev->class->p->glue_dirs)
+	if (!live_in_glue_dir(glue_dir, dev))
 		return;
 
 	mutex_lock(&gdp_mutex);
@@ -848,11 +866,6 @@ static void cleanup_glue_dir(struct devi
 	mutex_unlock(&gdp_mutex);
 }
 
-static void cleanup_device_parent(struct device *dev)
-{
-	cleanup_glue_dir(dev, dev->kobj.parent);
-}
-
 static int device_add_class_symlinks(struct device *dev)
 {
 	struct device_node *of_node = dev_of_node(dev);
@@ -1028,6 +1041,7 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
 	struct kobject *kobj;
 	struct class_interface *class_intf;
 	int error = -EINVAL;
+	struct kobject *glue_dir = NULL;
 
 	dev = get_device(dev);
 	if (!dev)
@@ -1072,8 +1086,10 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
 	/* first, register with generic layer. */
 	/* we require the name to be set before, and pass NULL */
 	error = kobject_add(&dev->kobj, dev->kobj.parent, NULL);
-	if (error)
+	if (error) {
+		glue_dir = get_glue_dir(dev);
 		goto Error;
+	}
 
 	/* notify platform of device entry */
 	if (platform_notify)
@@ -1154,9 +1170,10 @@ done:
 	device_remove_file(dev, &dev_attr_uevent);
  attrError:
 	kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
+	glue_dir = get_glue_dir(dev);
 	kobject_del(&dev->kobj);
  Error:
-	cleanup_device_parent(dev);
+	cleanup_glue_dir(dev, glue_dir);
 	put_device(parent);
 name_error:
 	kfree(dev->p);
@@ -1232,6 +1249,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(put_device);
 void device_del(struct device *dev)
 {
 	struct device *parent = dev->parent;
+	struct kobject *glue_dir = NULL;
 	struct class_interface *class_intf;
 
 	/* Notify clients of device removal.  This call must come
@@ -1276,8 +1294,9 @@ void device_del(struct device *dev)
 		blocking_notifier_call_chain(&dev->bus->p->bus_notifier,
 					     BUS_NOTIFY_REMOVED_DEVICE, dev);
 	kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
-	cleanup_device_parent(dev);
+	glue_dir = get_glue_dir(dev);
 	kobject_del(&dev->kobj);
+	cleanup_glue_dir(dev, glue_dir);
 	put_device(parent);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_del);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ming.lei@canonical.com are

queue-4.8/driver-core-fix-race-between-creating-querying-glue-dir-and-its-cleanup.patch