Re: [PATCH] media: don't drop front-end reference count for ->detach

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>]

Em Tue,  2 Jan 2018 10:48:54 +0100
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> escreveu:

> A bugfix introduce a link failure in configurations without CONFIG_MODULES:
> 
> In file included from drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/pctv452e.c:20:0:
> drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/pctv452e.c: In function 'pctv452e_frontend_attach':
> drivers/media/dvb-frontends/stb0899_drv.h:151:36: error: weak declaration of 'stb0899_attach' being applied to a already existing, static definition
> 
> The problem is that the !IS_REACHABLE() declaration of stb0899_attach()
> is a 'static inline' definition that clashes with the weak definition.
> 
> I further observed that the bugfix was only done for one of the five users
> of stb0899_attach(), the other four still have the problem.  This reverts
> the bugfix and instead addresses the problem by not dropping the reference
> count when calling '->detach()', instead we call this function directly
> in dvb_frontend_put() before dropping the kref on the front-end.
> 
> Cc: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@gmail.com>
> Cc: Wolfgang Rohdewald <wolfgang@rohdewald.de>
> Fixes: f686c14364ad ("[media] stb0899: move code to "detach" callback")
> Fixes: 6cdeaed3b142 ("media: dvb_usb_pctv452e: module refcount changes were unbalanced")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
>  drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c | 4 +++-
>  drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/pctv452e.c  | 8 --------
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c
> index 87fc1bcae5ae..fe10b6f4d3e0 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c
> @@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ static void dvb_frontend_free(struct kref *ref)
>  
>  static void dvb_frontend_put(struct dvb_frontend *fe)
>  {
> +	/* call detach before dropping the reference count */
> +	if (fe->ops.detach)
> +		fe->ops.detach(fe);
>  	/*
>  	 * Check if the frontend was registered, as otherwise
>  	 * kref was not initialized yet.
> @@ -2965,7 +2968,6 @@ void dvb_frontend_detach(struct dvb_frontend* fe)
>  	dvb_frontend_invoke_release(fe, fe->ops.release_sec);
>  	dvb_frontend_invoke_release(fe, fe->ops.tuner_ops.release);
>  	dvb_frontend_invoke_release(fe, fe->ops.analog_ops.release);
> -	dvb_frontend_invoke_release(fe, fe->ops.detach);
>  	dvb_frontend_put(fe);

Hmm... stb0899 is not the only driver using detach:

drivers/media/dvb-frontends/stb0899_drv.c:      .detach                         = stb0899_detach,
drivers/media/pci/saa7146/hexium_gemini.c:      .detach = hexium_detach,
drivers/media/pci/saa7146/hexium_orion.c:       .detach = hexium_detach,
drivers/media/pci/saa7146/mxb.c:        .detach         = mxb_detach,
drivers/media/pci/ttpci/av7110.c:       .detach         = av7110_detach,
drivers/media/pci/ttpci/budget-av.c:    .detach = budget_av_detach,
drivers/media/pci/ttpci/budget-ci.c:    .detach = budget_ci_detach,
drivers/media/pci/ttpci/budget-patch.c: .detach         = budget_patch_detach,
drivers/media/pci/ttpci/budget.c:       .detach         = budget_detach,

Unfortunately, I don't have any device that would be affected by
this change, but it sounds risky to not call this code anymore:

	#ifdef CONFIG_MEDIA_ATTACH
                dvb_detach(release);
	#endif

for .detach ops, as it has the potential of preventing unbind on
those drivers.


>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(dvb_frontend_detach);
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/pctv452e.c b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/pctv452e.c
> index 0af74383083d..ae793dac4964 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/pctv452e.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/pctv452e.c
> @@ -913,14 +913,6 @@ static int pctv452e_frontend_attach(struct dvb_usb_adapter *a)
>  						&a->dev->i2c_adap);
>  	if (!a->fe_adap[0].fe)
>  		return -ENODEV;
> -
> -	/*
> -	 * dvb_frontend will call dvb_detach for both stb0899_detach
> -	 * and stb0899_release but we only do dvb_attach(stb0899_attach).
> -	 * Increment the module refcount instead.
> -	 */
> -	symbol_get(stb0899_attach);


IMHO, the safest fix would be, instead, to do:

	#ifdef CONFIG_MEDIA_ATTACH
		symbol_get(stb0899_attach);
	#endif

Btw, we have some code similar to that on other drivers
with either symbol_get() or symbol_put().

Yeah, I agree that this sucks. The right fix here is to use i2c high level
interfaces, binding it via i2c bus, instead of using the symbol_get()
based dvb_attach() macro.

We're (very) slowing doing such changes along the media subsystem.

Thanks,
Mauro