From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>,
Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>,
linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 04/25] cxl/pci: Introduce cdevm_file_operations
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:01:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YUDVXV8egoZP05SF@sashalap> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4i5OHv2wHTO1Pdjz+qzAAWEha-7HdDdt42VyO_FasLSEA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 08:42:04AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 3:33 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 9cc238c7a526dba9ee8c210fa2828886fc65db66 ]
>>
>> In preparation for moving cxl_memdev allocation to the core, introduce
>> cdevm_file_operations to coordinate file operations shutdown relative to
>> driver data release.
>>
>> The motivation for moving cxl_memdev allocation to the core (beyond
>> better file organization of sysfs attributes in core/ and drivers in
>> cxl/), is that device lifetime is longer than module lifetime. The cxl_pci
>> module should be free to come and go without needing to coordinate with
>> devices that need the text associated with cxl_memdev_release() to stay
>> resident. The move will fix a use after free bug when looping driver
>> load / unload with CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE=y.
>>
>> Another motivation for passing in file_operations to the core cxl_memdev
>> creation flow is to allow for alternate drivers, like unit test code, to
>> define their own ioctl backends.
>
>Hi Sasha,
>
>Please drop this. It's not a fix, it's just a reorganization for
>easing the addition of new features and capabilities.
I'll drop it, but just to satisfy my curiousity: the description says it
fixes a use-after-free bug in the existing code, is it not the case?
--
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-14 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-13 22:33 [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 01/25] dmaengine: idxd: depends on !UML Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 02/25] dmaengine: sprd: Add missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 03/25] cxl: Move cxl_core to new directory Sasha Levin
2021-09-14 8:56 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-09-14 8:57 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-09-14 15:05 ` Ben Widawsky
2021-09-14 15:40 ` Dan Williams
2021-09-14 17:00 ` Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 04/25] cxl/pci: Introduce cdevm_file_operations Sasha Levin
2021-09-14 15:42 ` Dan Williams
2021-09-14 17:01 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2021-09-14 17:46 ` Dan Williams
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 05/25] gfs2: Switch to may_setattr in gfs2_setattr Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 06/25] dmaengine: ioat: depends on !UML Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 07/25] dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Set DMA mask for coherent APIs Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 08/25] s390: add kmemleak annotation in stack_alloc() Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 09/25] ASoC: audio-graph: respawn Platform Support Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 10/25] ACPI: PM: s2idle: Run both AMD and Microsoft methods if both are supported Sasha Levin
2021-09-21 14:57 ` Limonciello, Mario
2021-09-24 11:40 ` Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 11/25] ceph: fix memory leak on decode error in ceph_handle_caps Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 12/25] ceph: request Fw caps before updating the mtime in ceph_write_iter Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 13/25] ceph: remove the capsnaps when removing caps Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 14/25] ceph: lockdep annotations for try_nonblocking_invalidate Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 15/25] s390/unwind: use current_frame_address() to unwind current task Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 16/25] btrfs: update the bdev time directly when closing Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 17/25] btrfs: delay blkdev_put until after the device remove Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 18/25] btrfs: fix lockdep warning while mounting sprout fs Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 19/25] connector: send event on write to /proc/[pid]/comm Sasha Levin
2021-09-15 13:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-09-16 0:36 ` Sasha Levin
2021-09-16 15:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 21/25] nilfs2: fix NULL pointer in nilfs_##name##_attr_release Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 23/25] nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_##name##_group Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 24/25] nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_snapshot_group Sasha Levin
[not found] ` <20210913223339.435347-1-sashal-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 20/25] nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 22/25] nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_##name##_group Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 25/25] nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_snapshot_group Sasha Levin
2021-09-13 22:33 ` Sasha Levin
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