From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e38.co.us.ibm.com (e38.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.159]) (using TLSv1 with cipher CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9F8281A0F51 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 07:32:14 +1000 (AEST) Received: from /spool/local by e38.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:32:12 -0600 Received: from b03cxnp08027.gho.boulder.ibm.com (b03cxnp08027.gho.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.130.19]) by d03dlp03.boulder.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF84919D803F for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:23:03 -0600 (MDT) Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (d03av03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.169]) by b03cxnp08027.gho.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id t8GLWA1E56885426 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 14:32:10 -0700 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id t8GLW9XR015857 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:32:10 -0600 From: "Matthew R. Ochs" To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James Bottomley , "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , Brian King , Ian Munsie , Daniel Axtens , Andrew Donnellan Cc: Michael Neuling , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, "Manoj N. Kumar" Subject: [PATCH v2 21/30] cxlflash: Fix to prevent workq from accessing freed memory Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 16:31:45 -0500 Message-Id: <1442439105-50148-1-git-send-email-mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1442438635-49044-1-git-send-email-mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1442438635-49044-1-git-send-email-mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , The workq can process work in parallel with a remove event, leading to a condition where the workq handler can access freed memory. To remedy, the workq should be terminated prior to freeing memory. Move the termination call earlier in remove and use cancel_work_sync() instead of flush_work() as there is not a need to process any scheduled work when shutting down. Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar --- drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c b/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c index 1856a73..1625aea 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c @@ -736,12 +736,12 @@ static void cxlflash_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev) scsi_remove_host(cfg->host); /* Fall through */ case INIT_STATE_AFU: + cancel_work_sync(&cfg->work_q); term_afu(cfg); case INIT_STATE_PCI: pci_release_regions(cfg->dev); pci_disable_device(pdev); case INIT_STATE_NONE: - flush_work(&cfg->work_q); free_mem(cfg); scsi_host_put(cfg->host); break; -- 2.1.0