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From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
	Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
	iommu@lists.linux.dev
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com>,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Subject: [PATCH] lib/sg_pool: change module_init(sg_pool_init) to subsys_initcall
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 20:38:35 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220923113835.21544-1-masahiroy@kernel.org> (raw)

sg_alloc_table_chained() is called by several drivers, but if it is
called before sg_pool_init(), it results in a NULL pointer dereference
in sg_pool_alloc().

Since commit 9b1d6c895002 ("lib: scatterlist: move SG pool code from
SCSI driver to lib/sg_pool.c"), we rely on module_init(sg_pool_init)
is invoked before other module_init calls but this assumption is
fragile.

I slightly changed the link order while Kbuild refactoring Kbuild,
then uncovered this issue. I should keep the current link order, but
depending on a specific call order among module_init is so fragine.

We usually define the init order by specifying *_initcall correctly,
or delay the driver probing by returning -EPROBE_DEFER.

Change module_initcall() to subsys_initcall(), and also delete the
pointless module_exit() because lib/sg_pool.c is always compiled as
built-in. (CONFIG_SG_POOL is bool)

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220921043946.GA1355561@roeck-us.net/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8e70837d-d859-dfb2-bf7f-83f8b31467bc@samsung.com/
Fixes: 9b1d6c895002 ("lib: scatterlist: move SG pool code from SCSI driver to lib/sg_pool.c")
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
---

I am sending this to DMA subsystem because I did not find
a corresponding one for lib/sg_pool.c

 lib/sg_pool.c | 16 ++--------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/sg_pool.c b/lib/sg_pool.c
index a0b1a52cd6f7..9bfe60ca3f37 100644
--- a/lib/sg_pool.c
+++ b/lib/sg_pool.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
-#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/scatterlist.h>
 #include <linux/mempool.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
@@ -177,16 +177,4 @@ static __init int sg_pool_init(void)
 	return -ENOMEM;
 }
 
-static __exit void sg_pool_exit(void)
-{
-	int i;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < SG_MEMPOOL_NR; i++) {
-		struct sg_pool *sgp = sg_pools + i;
-		mempool_destroy(sgp->pool);
-		kmem_cache_destroy(sgp->slab);
-	}
-}
-
-module_init(sg_pool_init);
-module_exit(sg_pool_exit);
+subsys_initcall(sg_pool_init);
-- 
2.34.1


             reply	other threads:[~2022-09-23 11:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2022-09-23 11:38 ` Masahiro Yamada [this message]
2022-09-23 11:43   ` [PATCH] lib/sg_pool: change module_init(sg_pool_init) to subsys_initcall Masahiro Yamada
2022-09-23 12:09   ` Robin Murphy
2022-09-23 12:20   ` Marek Szyprowski
2022-09-23 14:49   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-09-23 15:28 Guenter Roeck

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