From: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
To: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com>, Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
Tero Kristo <t-kristo@ti.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, "Nori, Sekhar" <nsekhar@ti.com>,
Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>,
Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: usb: dwc3: of-simple: fix use-after-free on remove
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:27:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87602dx0yb.fsf@linux.intel.com> (raw)
Hi,
Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> writes:
> * Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> [180619 01:23]:
>> This is a direct consequence of not paying attention to the order of
>> things. If driver were to assume that pm_domain->activate() would do the
>> right thing for the device -- meaning that probe would run with an
>> active device --, then we wouldn't need that pm_runtime_get() call on
>> probe at all. Rather we would follow the sequence:
>>
>> pm_runtime_forbid()
>> pm_runtime_set_active()
>> pm_runtime_enable()
>>
>> /* do your probe routine */
>>
>> pm_runtime_put_noidle()
>>
>> Then you remove you would need to call pm_runtime_get_noresume() to
>> balance out the pm_runtime_put_noidle() there.
>
> How about let's create some prettier interface for the above runtime PM
> trickery?
>
> How about something like pm_runtime_init_enabled() for the above
> sequence?
>
> It might be then able to do the trick even if activate is not
> implemented..
>
> Right now it has the feeling of "oh well we can't get runtime PM to
> work so let's bypass it with activate call and then trick runtime PM
> to start in enabled mode" :)
no strong feelings about that either way. It's only 3 lines of code
anyway. I feel like that's a minor cosmetic change.
>> (If you need to know why the pm_runtime_put_noidle(), remember that
>> pm_runtime_set_active() increments the usage counter, so
>> pm_runtime_put_noidle is basically allowing pm_runtime to happen as soon
>> as userspace writes "auto" to /sys/..../power/control)
>
> I wonder if we could also remove the need for drivers to call
> pm_runtime_putnoidle() at the end of the probe? If we had
> pm_runtime_init_enabled() implemented.
probably not. We want to block runtime pm during probe, until the device
is fully initialized, the only way to do that is to increment rpm usage
counter.
next reply other threads:[~2018-06-20 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-20 9:27 Felipe Balbi [this message]
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2018-06-21 15:15 usb: dwc3: of-simple: fix use-after-free on remove Alan Stern
2018-06-21 10:11 Johan Hovold
2018-06-21 9:52 Johan Hovold
2018-06-21 8:27 Johan Hovold
2018-06-21 8:17 Roger Quadros
2018-06-20 22:55 Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-06-20 22:32 Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-06-20 15:46 Johan Hovold
2018-06-20 12:54 Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-06-20 12:23 Johan Hovold
2018-06-20 12:17 Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-06-20 11:05 Felipe Balbi
2018-06-20 9:54 Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-06-20 9:16 Tony Lindgren
2018-06-20 4:34 Tony Lindgren
2018-06-19 12:10 Tero Kristo
2018-06-19 8:18 Felipe Balbi
2018-06-18 14:32 Roger Quadros
2018-06-18 12:21 Felipe Balbi
2018-06-18 11:11 Roger Quadros
2018-06-18 9:51 Felipe Balbi
2018-06-18 9:47 Johan Hovold
2018-06-18 9:33 Felipe Balbi
2018-06-18 8:34 Johan Hovold
2018-06-18 8:15 Felipe Balbi
2018-06-13 10:59 Johan Hovold
2018-06-13 9:39 Felipe Balbi
2018-06-13 8:34 Roger Quadros
2018-06-13 8:05 Felipe Balbi
2018-06-13 7:49 Roger Quadros
2018-05-31 14:58 Johan Hovold
2018-05-31 14:45 Johan Hovold
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