Re: [PATCH v1] Revert "software node: Simplify software_node_release() function"

[Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 04:00:01PM -0800, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> This reverts commit 3df85a1ae51f6b256982fe9d17c2dc5bfb4cc402.
> 
> The reverted commit says "It's possible to release the node ID
> immediately when fwnode_remove_software_node() is called, no need to
> wait for software_node_release() with that." However, releasing the node
> ID before waiting for software_node_release() to be called causes the
> node ID to be released before the kobject and the underlying sysfs
> entry; this means there is a period of time where a sysfs entry exists
> that is associated with an unallocated node ID.
> 
> Once consequence of this is that there is a race condition where it is
> possible to call fwnode_create_software_node() with no parent node
> specified (NULL) and have it fail with -EEXIST because the node ID that
> was assigned is still associated with a stale sysfs entry that hasn't
> been cleaned up yet.
> 
> Although it is difficult to reproduce this race condition under normal
> conditions, it can be deterministically reproduced with the following
> minconfig on UML:
> 
> CONFIG_KUNIT_DRIVER_PE_TEST=y
> CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y
> CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS=y
> CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS=y
> CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE=y
> CONFIG_KUNIT=y
> 
> Running the tests with this configuration causes the following failure:
> 
> <snip>
> kobject: 'node0' ((____ptrval____)): kobject_release, parent (____ptrval____) (delayed 400)
> 	ok 1 - pe_test_uints
> sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/kernel/software_nodes/node0'
> CPU: 0 PID: 28 Comm: kunit_try_catch Not tainted 5.6.0-rc3-next-20200227 #14
> <snip>
> kobject_add_internal failed for node0 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.
> kobject: 'node0' ((____ptrval____)): kobject_release, parent (____ptrval____) (delayed 100)
> 	# pe_test_uint_arrays: ASSERTION FAILED at drivers/base/test/property-entry-test.c:123
> 	Expected node is not error, but is: -17
> 	not ok 2 - pe_test_uint_arrays
> <snip>
> 
> Reported-by: Heidi Fahim <heidifahim@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
> Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>

> ---
>  drivers/base/swnode.c | 14 +++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/base/swnode.c b/drivers/base/swnode.c
> index 0b081dee1e95c..de8d3543e8fe3 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/swnode.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/swnode.c
> @@ -608,6 +608,13 @@ static void software_node_release(struct kobject *kobj)
>  {
>  	struct swnode *swnode = kobj_to_swnode(kobj);
>  
> +	if (swnode->parent) {
> +		ida_simple_remove(&swnode->parent->child_ids, swnode->id);
> +		list_del(&swnode->entry);
> +	} else {
> +		ida_simple_remove(&swnode_root_ids, swnode->id);
> +	}
> +
>  	if (swnode->allocated) {
>  		property_entries_free(swnode->node->properties);
>  		kfree(swnode->node);
> @@ -773,13 +780,6 @@ void fwnode_remove_software_node(struct fwnode_handle *fwnode)
>  	if (!swnode)
>  		return;
>  
> -	if (swnode->parent) {
> -		ida_simple_remove(&swnode->parent->child_ids, swnode->id);
> -		list_del(&swnode->entry);
> -	} else {
> -		ida_simple_remove(&swnode_root_ids, swnode->id);
> -	}
> -
>  	kobject_put(&swnode->kobj);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fwnode_remove_software_node);
> -- 
> 2.25.1.481.gfbce0eb801-goog

thanks,

-- 
heikki