From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux PCI <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>,
Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>,
Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI / bind: Use (put|get)_device() on ACPI device objects too
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 11:43:48 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131114024348.GA9899@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9712243.It8gvaRCs0@vostro.rjw.lan>
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:26:47AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
>
> When associating a "physical" device with an ACPI device object
> acpi_bind_one() only uses get_device() to increment the reference
> counter of the former, but there is no reason not to do that with
> the latter too. Among other things, that may help to avoid
> use-after-free when an ACPI device object is freed without calling
> acpi_unbind_one() for all "physical" devices associated with it
> (that only can happen in buggy code, but then it's better if the
> kernel doesn't crash as a result of a bug).
>
> For this reason, modify acpi_bind_one() to apply get_device() to
> the ACPI device object too and update acpi_unbind_one() to drop
> that reference using put_device() as appropriate.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-14 2:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-10 0:58 [PATCH] ACPI / driver core: Store a device pointer in struct acpi_dev_node Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-11-10 15:16 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-11 1:21 ` Lan Tianyu
2013-11-11 13:45 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-11-11 15:03 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-11 21:56 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-11-12 9:24 ` Mika Westerberg
2013-11-12 14:20 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-11-13 6:57 ` Aaron Lu
2013-11-13 23:25 ` [PATCH 0/2] ACPI: Additional changes on top of "ACPI / driver core: Store a device pointer in struct acpi_dev_node" Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-11-13 23:26 ` [PATCH 1/2] ACPI: Eliminate the DEVICE_ACPI_HANDLE() macro Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-11-14 2:44 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-13 23:26 ` [PATCH 2/2] ACPI / bind: Use (put|get)_device() on ACPI device objects too Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-11-14 2:43 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-11-14 7:20 ` Lan Tianyu
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