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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Chuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
Cc: dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, tj@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devres: Freeing the drs after all release() are called
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 00:58:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131106085859.GB9487@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1383720018.3650.37.camel@cliu38-desktop-build>

On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 02:40:18PM +0800, Chuansheng Liu wrote:
> 
> In release_nodes(), it will call dr->node.release() and kfree
> dr one by one.
> 
> But sometimes the previous dr maybe be used by next .release(),
> such as:
> [50314.855534]  [<c12b172f>] ? synchronize_irq+0x3f/0xb0
> [50314.861193]  [<c12b18e9>] __free_irq+0x149/0x200
> [50314.866367]  [<c12b19e3>] free_irq+0x43/0xa0
> [50314.871152]  [<c12b4864>] devm_irq_release+0x14/0x20
> [50314.876713]  [<c169e806>] release_nodes+0x136/0x1b0
> [50314.882178]  [<c169ee79>] devres_release_all+0x39/0x60
> [50314.887935]  [<c169b411>] __device_release_driver+0x71/0xd0
> 
> the free_irq() will sync the last irq handling, which maybe use
> freed dr, then it will cause memory corruption.
> 
> Here split the dr kfreeing actions after all dr->node.release().

But you aren't really solving any problems here, how is dr being used
after the release function is called?  Who is doing it in such a way
that this change would really fix anything?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-06  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-06  6:40 [PATCH] devres: Freeing the drs after all release() are called Chuansheng Liu
2013-11-06  8:58 ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-11-07  0:27   ` Liu, Chuansheng
2013-11-07  0:29     ` tj
2013-11-07  0:36       ` Liu, Chuansheng
2013-11-07  0:46         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2013-11-07  0:53           ` Liu, Chuansheng
2013-11-07  0:51         ` tj
2013-11-07  1:18           ` Liu, Chuansheng
2013-11-07  1:56             ` Greg KH

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