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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Subject: Question on release_one_tty
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 12:25:44 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140807082544.GP20553@moon> (raw)

Hi guys, could you please explain me the sequence

static void release_one_tty(struct work_struct *work)
{
	struct tty_struct *tty =
		container_of(work, struct tty_struct, hangup_work);
	struct tty_driver *driver = tty->driver;

	if (tty->ops->cleanup)
		tty->ops->cleanup(tty);

	tty->magic = 0;
-->	tty_driver_kref_put(driver);
-->	module_put(driver->owner);

why tty_driver_kref_put is called before module_put? As far as I understand
tty_driver_kref_put may call the destruct_tty_driver which eventually does

static void destruct_tty_driver(struct kref *kref)
{
	struct tty_driver *driver = container_of(kref, struct tty_driver, kref);
	...
	kfree(driver->cdevs);
	kfree(driver->ports);
	kfree(driver->termios);
	kfree(driver->ttys);
-->	kfree(driver);
}

so that the module_put(driver->owner) would access freed memory. Should not we
call the reverse module_put and then tty_driver_kref_put, or I miss something
obvious?

	Cyrill

             reply	other threads:[~2014-08-07  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-07  8:25 Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2014-08-07  8:28 ` Question on release_one_tty Pavel Emelyanov
2014-08-07  8:34   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2014-08-07  9:05     ` Pavel Emelyanov
2014-08-07  9:18       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2014-08-07  9:34         ` [PATCH] tty: Fix potential use after free in release_one_tty Cyrill Gorcunov
2014-08-07 20:22           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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