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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	sboyd@kernel.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net, rafael@kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible race in dev_coredumpm()-del_timer() path
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 13:31:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0brew9m.ffs@tglx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220414112055.GA14124@hu-mojha-hyd.qualcomm.com>

On Thu, Apr 14 2022 at 16:50, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 12:38:13PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> So, yes this needs serialization of some sort.
>
> Thanks for understanding the problem.
> Can the patch mentioned at below link helps with the first problem ?
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/57a04278-0a60-cc7d-7ce8-a75c2befd568@quicinc.com/

Something like that.

>> Same problem vs. disabled_store().
>
> you mean, while userspace is reading the data and suddenly disable_store() done from
> sysfs.

No, that's not a problem because the reader holds a reference, but it's
the same problem vs. initialization:

  device_add()
                        disable_store()
                          devcd_free()
                           mod_delayed_work()
                           ....
Thanks,

        tglx

      reply	other threads:[~2022-04-14 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-13  5:29 Possible race in dev_coredumpm()-del_timer() path Mukesh Ojha
2022-04-13  5:34 ` Greg KH
2022-04-13  6:41   ` Johannes Berg
2022-04-13 10:16   ` Mukesh Ojha
2022-04-13 10:58     ` Greg KH
2022-04-13 11:21       ` Mukesh Ojha
2022-04-13 13:01         ` Greg KH
2022-04-13 14:17       ` Mukesh Ojha
2022-04-13 14:18       ` Mukesh Ojha
2022-04-14 10:38       ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-04-14 11:20         ` Mukesh Ojha
2022-04-14 11:31           ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]

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