From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Cc: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] gpiolib: don't allow user-space to crash the kernel with hot-unplugs
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 18:54:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y4Y5Pomzhc/uK5c4@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221129123553.353410-1-brgl@bgdev.pl>
On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 01:35:51PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
>
> This is a second iteration of the changes that aim at fixing the situation
> in which the user-space can provoke a NULL-pointer derefence in the kernel
> when a GPIO device that's in use by user-space is removed.
>
> I didn't add the review tags as the code changes significantly.
LGTM,
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Some nit-picks are in the individual reply(ies).
> v2 -> v3:
> - drop the helper variable in patch 1/2 as we won't be using it in 2/2
> - refactor patch 2/2 to use locking wrappers around the syscall callbacks
>
> v1 -> v2:
> - add missing gdev->chip checks in patch 1/2
> - add a second patch that protects the structures that can be accessed
> by user-space calls against concurrent removal
>
> Bartosz Golaszewski (2):
> gpiolib: cdev: fix NULL-pointer dereferences
> gpiolib: protect the GPIO device against being dropped while in use by
> user-space
>
> drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c | 190 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 3 +
> drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h | 5 +
> 3 files changed, 176 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.37.2
>
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-29 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-29 12:35 [PATCH v3 0/2] gpiolib: don't allow user-space to crash the kernel with hot-unplugs Bartosz Golaszewski
2022-11-29 12:35 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] gpiolib: cdev: fix NULL-pointer dereferences Bartosz Golaszewski
2022-11-29 12:35 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] gpiolib: protect the GPIO device against being dropped while in use by user-space Bartosz Golaszewski
2022-11-29 16:53 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-11-29 23:57 ` Kent Gibson
2022-11-29 16:54 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
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