From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Yet another pipe related oops.
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 22:21:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130401212142.GD21522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130401210029.GA3245@kroah.com>
On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 02:00:29PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > IOW, how do we deal with a race between attempt to open a debugfs file and
> > its removal on driver unload? Greg?
>
> Hm, I thought the i_fop->owner thing would be the needed protection, but
It will be, if you manage to fetch it...
> I guess you are right, it will not. I guess we need to do what
> character devices do and have an "intermediate" fops in order to protect
> this. Would that work?
You mean, with reassigning ->f_op in ->open()? That'll work, as long as
we have exclusion between removal and fetching the sucker in primary
->open()... Where would you prefer to stash fops?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-01 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-07 2:16 BUG_ON(nd->inode != parent->d_inode); Dave Jones
2013-03-07 15:30 ` BUG_ON(nd->inode->i_op->follow_link); Dave Jones
2013-03-07 17:30 ` BUG_ON(nd->inode->i_op->follow_link); Linus Torvalds
2013-03-07 19:35 ` BUG_ON(nd->inode->i_op->follow_link); Dave Jones
2013-03-07 20:33 ` BUG_ON(nd->inode->i_op->follow_link); Linus Torvalds
2013-03-07 21:38 ` ipc/testmsg GPF Dave Jones
2013-03-07 21:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-07 21:49 ` David Miller
2013-03-07 21:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-07 22:03 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-07 22:36 ` pipe_release oops Dave Jones
2013-03-07 23:14 ` fasync_remove_entry oops Dave Jones
2013-03-07 23:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-07 23:54 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-08 0:20 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-08 0:21 ` pipe_release oops Linus Torvalds
2013-03-08 14:53 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-08 18:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-08 18:26 ` Jörn Engel
2013-03-10 23:33 ` Al Viro
2013-03-12 19:09 ` Jörn Engel
2013-03-10 22:10 ` Al Viro
2013-03-11 0:35 ` Al Viro
2013-03-11 15:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-11 18:05 ` Al Viro
2013-03-12 13:06 ` Al Viro
2013-03-12 15:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-12 19:43 ` Al Viro
2013-03-12 19:56 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-12 20:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-12 20:51 ` Al Viro
2013-03-27 13:51 ` Yet another pipe related oops Dave Jones
2013-03-27 15:20 ` Al Viro
2013-03-27 16:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-27 16:53 ` Raymond Jennings
2013-03-27 17:45 ` Al Viro
2013-04-01 20:34 ` Al Viro
2013-04-01 21:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-01 21:21 ` Al Viro [this message]
2013-04-01 21:44 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-01 23:27 ` Al Viro
2013-04-02 0:22 ` Al Viro
2013-04-02 1:55 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-12 1:27 ` pipe_release oops Dave Jones
2013-03-09 0:27 ` ipc/testmsg GPF Peter Hurley
2013-03-09 0:32 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-11 18:26 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-11 19:03 ` Peter Hurley
2013-03-12 22:02 ` Andrew Morton
2013-03-12 22:33 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-15 21:21 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-25 16:37 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-25 18:28 ` Peter Hurley
2013-03-25 18:39 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-07 22:18 ` BUG_ON(nd->inode->i_op->follow_link); Dave Jones
2013-03-07 22:50 ` BUG_ON(nd->inode->i_op->follow_link); Linus Torvalds
2013-03-07 23:03 ` BUG_ON(nd->inode->i_op->follow_link); Dave Jones
2013-03-07 23:55 ` BUG_ON(nd->inode->i_op->follow_link); Linus Torvalds
2013-03-11 0:02 ` BUG_ON(nd->inode->i_op->follow_link); Al Viro
2013-03-10 23:04 ` BUG_ON(nd->inode->i_op->follow_link); Al Viro
2013-03-12 18:31 ` BUG_ON(nd->inode->i_op->follow_link); Linus Torvalds
2013-03-08 15:04 ` BUG_ON(nd->inode != parent->d_inode); Dave Jones
2013-03-08 18:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-08 19:18 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-08 19:20 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-08 19:36 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-08 19:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-08 21:04 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-08 22:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-08 23:07 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-08 23:14 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-08 23:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-08 23:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-08 23:34 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-08 23:47 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-08 23:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-08 23:30 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-08 23:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-08 23:55 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-09 0:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-09 0:19 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-09 0:29 ` Raymond Jennings
2013-03-09 0:36 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-09 1:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-09 2:03 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-09 2:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-09 2:26 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-09 2:56 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-09 2:57 ` Dave Jones
[not found] ` <CA+55aFxyOYXnzDoWr7Utr1QLjjMUCON5EGH3FMvGBHxnxMJmQQ@mail.gmail.com>
2013-03-09 3:25 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-09 3:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-09 4:26 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-09 8:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <CA+55aFweyfew3VU79ZQV4otJcWiF0=xKXxDtADXcccNxGaqMwA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-03-09 3:50 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-09 4:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-09 4:39 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-09 5:13 ` Sasha Levin
2013-03-09 5:16 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-09 3:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
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