Re: [PATCH 4.4 40/57] tpm: Provide strong locking for device removal

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 02:03:06PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 12:56:37PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 11:56:01PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2017-07-19 at 13:12 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
> > > > 
> > > > commit 4e26195f240d73150e8308ae42874702e3df8d2c upstream.
> > > > 
> > > > Add a read/write semaphore around the ops function pointers so
> > > > ops can be set to null when the driver un-registers.
> > > [...]
> > > > @@ -49,10 +99,10 @@ struct tpm_chip *tpm_chip_find_get(int c
> > > >  		if (chip_num != TPM_ANY_NUM && chip_num != pos->dev_num)
> > > >  			continue;
> > > >  
> > > > -		if (try_module_get(pos->dev.parent->driver->owner)) {
> > > > +		/* rcu prevents chip from being free'd */
> > > > +		if (!tpm_try_get_ops(pos))
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > But an RCU read-side critical section is an atomic context, and
> > > semaphore operations can block!  Fixed upstream by:
> > > 
> > > commit 15516788e581eb32ec1c50e5f00aba3faf95d817
> > > Author: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > Date:   Mon Feb 29 08:53:02 2016 -0500
> > > 
> > >     tpm: Replace device number bitmap with IDR
> > 
> > Ugh, that's a big patch.
> > 
> > Jason, Stefan, and Jarkko, what do you think?  Should I also take this
> > for 4.4-stable?
> 
> 15516 is part of the series that included 4e26, I wouldn't take that
> series piecemeal, as Ben observes..
> 
> I think it would be safer to avoid all these backport patches and
> instead restructure the important TPM shutdown patch so that it is
> 'less safe'. This would mean there is a chance that the another TPM
> user could send a command after shutdown, but realistically that is
> not likely to happen.

Ok, so what do you want me to do here?

thanks,

greg k-h