From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-wr0-f196.google.com ([209.85.128.196]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.87 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1cg9vi-0002Cl-6A for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:52:32 +0000 Received: by mail-wr0-f196.google.com with SMTP id z61so14341572wrc.3 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 04:52:09 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/14] scsi: utilize new device_add_cdev helper function To: Logan Gunthorpe , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Dan Williams , Alexander Viro , Johannes Thumshirn , Jan Kara , Arnd Bergmann , Sajjan Vikas C , Dmitry Torokhov , Linus Walleij , Alexandre Courbot , Peter Huewe , Marcel Selhorst , Jarkko Sakkinen , Jason Gunthorpe , Olof Johansson , Doug Ledford , Sean Hefty , Hal Rosenstock , Dmitry Vyukov , Haggai Eran , Parav Pandit , Leon Romanovsky , Jonathan Cameron , Hartmut Knaack , Lars-Peter Clausen , Peter Meerwald-Stadler , Hans Verkuil , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Artem Bityutskiy , Richard Weinberger , David Woodhouse , Brian Norris , Boris Brezillon , Marek Vasut , Cyrille Pitchen , Matt Porter , Alexandre Bounine , Andrew Morton , Joe Perches , Lorenzo Stoakes , Vladimir Zapolskiy , Alessandro Zummo , Alexandre Belloni , Boaz Harrosh , Benny Halevy , "James E.J. Bottomley" , "Martin K. Petersen" , Stephen Bates , Bjorn Helgaas References: <1487653253-11497-1-git-send-email-logang@deltatee.com> <1487653253-11497-14-git-send-email-logang@deltatee.com> Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, osd-dev@open-osd.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org From: Boaz Harrosh Message-ID: Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 14:52:00 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1487653253-11497-14-git-send-email-logang@deltatee.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 02/21/2017 07:00 AM, Logan Gunthorpe wrote: > Note: the chardev instance in osd_uld.c originally did not > set the kobject parent. Thus, I'm reasonably confident that because > of this, this code would have suffered from a minor use after free > bug if the cdev was open when the backing device was released. > > Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe Cool thanks. And even a bug fix ACK-by: Boaz Harrosh > --- > drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c | 9 +++++---- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c b/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c > index 243eab3..519be56 100644 > --- a/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c > +++ b/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c > @@ -473,18 +473,19 @@ static int osd_probe(struct device *dev) > goto err_put_disk; > } > > + device_initialize(&oud->class_dev); > + oud->class_dev.devt = MKDEV(SCSI_OSD_MAJOR, oud->minor); > + > /* init the char-device for communication with user-mode */ > cdev_init(&oud->cdev, &osd_fops); > oud->cdev.owner = THIS_MODULE; > - error = cdev_add(&oud->cdev, > - MKDEV(SCSI_OSD_MAJOR, oud->minor), 1); > + error = device_add_cdev(&oud->class_dev, &oud->cdev); > if (error) { > OSD_ERR("cdev_add failed\n"); > goto err_put_disk; > } > > /* class device member */ > - oud->class_dev.devt = oud->cdev.dev; > oud->class_dev.class = &osd_uld_class; > oud->class_dev.parent = dev; > oud->class_dev.release = __remove; > @@ -494,7 +495,7 @@ static int osd_probe(struct device *dev) > goto err_put_cdev; > } > > - error = device_register(&oud->class_dev); > + error = device_add(&oud->class_dev); > if (error) { > OSD_ERR("device_register failed => %d\n", error); > goto err_put_cdev; >