Commit 66942064 authored by Alex Chiang's avatar Alex Chiang Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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sysfs: only allow one scheduled removal callback per kobj 



The only way for a sysfs attribute to remove itself (without
deadlock) is to use the sysfs_schedule_callback() interface.

Vegard Nossum discovered that a poorly written sysfs ->store
callback can repeatedly schedule remove callbacks on the same
device over and over, e.g.

	$ while true ; do echo 1 > /sys/devices/.../remove ; done

If the 'remove' attribute uses the sysfs_schedule_callback API
and also does not protect itself from concurrent accesses, its
callback handler will be called multiple times, and will
eventually attempt to perform operations on a freed kobject,
leading to many problems.

Instead of requiring all callers of sysfs_schedule_callback to
implement their own synchronization, provide the protection in
the infrastructure.

Now, sysfs_schedule_callback will only allow one scheduled
callback per kobject. On subsequent calls with the same kobject,
return -EAGAIN.

This is a short term fix. The long term fix is to allow sysfs
attributes to remove themselves directly, without any of this
callback hokey pokey.

[cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com: s390 ccwgroup bits]

Reported-by: default avatar <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Acked-by: default avatarCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent ffa6a705

drivers/s390/cio/ccwgroup.c

+3 −2
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ ccwgroup_ungroup_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, const 
	rc = device_schedule_callback(dev, ccwgroup_ungroup_callback);

out:

	if (rc) {

		if (rc != -EAGAIN)

			/* Release onoff "lock" when ungrouping failed. */

			atomic_set(&gdev->onoff, 0);

		return rc;

fs/sysfs/file.c

+23 −3
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -659,6 +659,7 @@ void sysfs_remove_file_from_group(struct kobject *kobj, 
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_remove_file_from_group);



struct sysfs_schedule_callback_struct {

	struct list_head	workq_list;

	struct kobject		*kobj;

	void			(*func)(void *);

	void			*data;
@@ -666,6 +667,8 @@ struct sysfs_schedule_callback_struct { 
	struct work_struct	work;

};



static DEFINE_MUTEX(sysfs_workq_mutex);

static LIST_HEAD(sysfs_workq);

static void sysfs_schedule_callback_work(struct work_struct *work)

{

	struct sysfs_schedule_callback_struct *ss = container_of(work,
@@ -674,6 +677,9 @@ static void sysfs_schedule_callback_work(struct work_struct *work) 
	(ss->func)(ss->data);

	kobject_put(ss->kobj);

	module_put(ss->owner);

	mutex_lock(&sysfs_workq_mutex);

	list_del(&ss->workq_list);

	mutex_unlock(&sysfs_workq_mutex);

	kfree(ss);

}
@@ -695,15 +701,25 @@ static void sysfs_schedule_callback_work(struct work_struct *work) 
 * until @func returns.

 *

 * Returns 0 if the request was submitted, -ENOMEM if storage could not

 * be allocated, -ENODEV if a reference to @owner isn't available.

 * be allocated, -ENODEV if a reference to @owner isn't available,

 * -EAGAIN if a callback has already been scheduled for @kobj.

 */

int sysfs_schedule_callback(struct kobject *kobj, void (*func)(void *),

		void *data, struct module *owner)

{

	struct sysfs_schedule_callback_struct *ss;

	struct sysfs_schedule_callback_struct *ss, *tmp;



	if (!try_module_get(owner))

		return -ENODEV;



	mutex_lock(&sysfs_workq_mutex);

	list_for_each_entry_safe(ss, tmp, &sysfs_workq, workq_list)

		if (ss->kobj == kobj) {

			mutex_unlock(&sysfs_workq_mutex);

			return -EAGAIN;

		}

	mutex_unlock(&sysfs_workq_mutex);



	ss = kmalloc(sizeof(*ss), GFP_KERNEL);

	if (!ss) {

		module_put(owner);
@@ -715,6 +731,10 @@ int sysfs_schedule_callback(struct kobject *kobj, void (*func)(void *), 
	ss->data = data;

	ss->owner = owner;

	INIT_WORK(&ss->work, sysfs_schedule_callback_work);

	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ss->workq_list);

	mutex_lock(&sysfs_workq_mutex);

	list_add_tail(&ss->workq_list, &sysfs_workq);

	mutex_unlock(&sysfs_workq_mutex);

	schedule_work(&ss->work);

	return 0;

}

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