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authorTony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>2009-01-21 14:45:50 -0500
committerChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>2009-04-27 10:37:02 -0700
commitb21c6d2897cd455fa396f4041a0c8165784e949f (patch)
tree1b7543cb6dc6987bc23f6ffd892b76d41a653156 /tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c
parent14be1689c96842bd93cbcda4cb0bd4c5cc15a5a0 (diff)
SCSI: sg: fix races during device removal
upstream commit: c6517b7942fad663cc1cf3235cbe4207cf769332 sg has the following problems related to device removal: * opening a sg fd races with removing a device * closing a sg fd races with removing a device * /proc/scsi/sg/* access races with removing a device * command completion races with removing a device * command completion races with closing a sg fd * can rmmod sg with active commands These problems can cause kernel oopses, memory-use-after-free, or double-free errors. This patch fixes these problems by using krefs to manage the lifetime of sg_device and sg_fd. Each command submitted to the midlevel holds a reference to sg_fd until the completion callback. This ensures that sg_fd doesn't go away if the fd is closed with commands still outstanding. sg_fd gets the reference of sg_device (with scsi_device) and also makes sure that the sg module doesn't go away. /proc/scsi/sg/* functions don't play nicely with krefs because they give information about sg_fds which have been closed but not yet freed due to still having outstanding commands and sg_devices which have been removed but not yet freed due to still being referenced by one or more sg_fds. To deal with this safely without removing functionality, /proc functions now access sg_device and sg_fd while holding a lock instead of using kref_get()/kref_put(). Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Acked-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> [chrisw: big for -stable, helps fix real bug, and made it through rc2 upstream] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
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