From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Subject: Question on release_one_tty
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 12:25:44 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140807082544.GP20553@moon> (raw)
Hi guys, could you please explain me the sequence
static void release_one_tty(struct work_struct *work)
{
struct tty_struct *tty =
container_of(work, struct tty_struct, hangup_work);
struct tty_driver *driver = tty->driver;
if (tty->ops->cleanup)
tty->ops->cleanup(tty);
tty->magic = 0;
--> tty_driver_kref_put(driver);
--> module_put(driver->owner);
why tty_driver_kref_put is called before module_put? As far as I understand
tty_driver_kref_put may call the destruct_tty_driver which eventually does
static void destruct_tty_driver(struct kref *kref)
{
struct tty_driver *driver = container_of(kref, struct tty_driver, kref);
...
kfree(driver->cdevs);
kfree(driver->ports);
kfree(driver->termios);
kfree(driver->ttys);
--> kfree(driver);
}
so that the module_put(driver->owner) would access freed memory. Should not we
call the reverse module_put and then tty_driver_kref_put, or I miss something
obvious?
Cyrill
next reply other threads:[~2014-08-07 8:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-07 8:25 Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2014-08-07 8:28 ` Question on release_one_tty Pavel Emelyanov
2014-08-07 8:34 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2014-08-07 9:05 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2014-08-07 9:18 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2014-08-07 9:34 ` [PATCH] tty: Fix potential use after free in release_one_tty Cyrill Gorcunov
2014-08-07 20:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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