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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
Cc: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Wangzhou <wangzhou1@hisilicon.com>,
	Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>,
	linux-accelerators@lists.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
	iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Yang Shen <shenyang39@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uacce: fix concurrency of fops_open and uacce_remove
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 15:38:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YrB4WLW/ZvKp1imo@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YrB1D9rv9G4h/BYU@myrica>

On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 02:24:31PM +0100, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:
> >From c7c2b051ec19285bbb973f8a2a5e58bb5326e00e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 10:10:41 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] uacce: Tidy up locking
> 
> The uacce driver must deal with a possible removal of the parent driver
> or device at any time.

No it should not, if the reference counting logic is properly set up.
The parent driver should correctly tear things down here.

> At the moment there are several issues that may
> result in use-after-free. Tidy up the locking to handle module removal.

I don't think you did that, as module removal should never happen if a
file descriptor is opened as I previously mentioned.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-20 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-10 12:34 [PATCH] uacce: fix concurrency of fops_open and uacce_remove Zhangfei Gao
2022-06-15 15:16 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2022-06-16  4:10   ` Zhangfei Gao
2022-06-16  8:14     ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2022-06-17  6:05       ` Zhangfei Gao
2022-06-17  8:20         ` Zhangfei Gao
2022-06-17 14:23           ` Zhangfei Gao
2022-06-20 13:25             ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2022-06-20 13:24         ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2022-06-20 13:36           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-06-21  7:37             ` Zhangfei Gao
2022-06-21  7:44               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-06-22  8:14                 ` Zhangfei Gao
2022-06-22  8:24                   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-06-20 13:38           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2022-06-20 20:18           ` [PATCH] uacce: Tidy up locking kernel test robot

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