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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2013-10-30 10:28:36 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-11-01 12:13:37 -0700
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parent044e3bc33391b1f2769d5ab2c04f246c3d8e04c3 (diff)
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sysfs: rename sysfs_assoc_lock and explain what it's about
sysfs_assoc_lock is an odd piece of locking. In general, whoever owns a kobject is responsible for synchronizing sysfs operations and sysfs proper assumes that, for example, removal won't race with any other operation; however, this doesn't work for symlinking because an entity performing symlink doesn't usually own the target kobject and thus has no control over its removal. sysfs_assoc_lock synchronizes symlink operations against kobj->sd disassociation so that symlink code doesn't end up dereferencing already freed sysfs_dirent by racing with removal of the target kobject. This is quite obscure and the generic name of the lock and lack of comments make it difficult to understand its role. Let's rename it to sysfs_symlink_target_lock and add comments explaining what's going on. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sysfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/dir.c18
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/symlink.c20
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/sysfs.h2
3 files changed, 30 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index de47ed32d5c7..08c66969d52a 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
#include "sysfs.h"
DEFINE_MUTEX(sysfs_mutex);
-DEFINE_SPINLOCK(sysfs_assoc_lock);
+DEFINE_SPINLOCK(sysfs_symlink_target_lock);
#define to_sysfs_dirent(X) rb_entry((X), struct sysfs_dirent, s_rb)
@@ -902,9 +902,21 @@ void sysfs_remove_dir(struct kobject *kobj)
{
struct sysfs_dirent *sd = kobj->sd;
- spin_lock(&sysfs_assoc_lock);
+ /*
+ * In general, kboject owner is responsible for ensuring removal
+ * doesn't race with other operations and sysfs doesn't provide any
+ * protection; however, when @kobj is used as a symlink target, the
+ * symlinking entity usually doesn't own @kobj and thus has no
+ * control over removal. @kobj->sd may be removed anytime and
+ * symlink code may end up dereferencing an already freed sd.
+ *
+ * sysfs_symlink_target_lock synchronizes @kobj->sd disassociation
+ * against symlink operations so that symlink code can safely
+ * dereference @kobj->sd.
+ */
+ spin_lock(&sysfs_symlink_target_lock);
kobj->sd = NULL;
- spin_unlock(&sysfs_assoc_lock);
+ spin_unlock(&sysfs_symlink_target_lock);
if (sd) {
WARN_ON_ONCE(sysfs_type(sd) != SYSFS_DIR);
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
index 22ea2f5796f5..1a23681b8179 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
@@ -32,13 +32,15 @@ static int sysfs_do_create_link_sd(struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd,
BUG_ON(!name || !parent_sd);
- /* target->sd can go away beneath us but is protected with
- * sysfs_assoc_lock. Fetch target_sd from it.
+ /*
+ * We don't own @target and it may be removed at any time.
+ * Synchronize using sysfs_symlink_target_lock. See
+ * sysfs_remove_dir() for details.
*/
- spin_lock(&sysfs_assoc_lock);
+ spin_lock(&sysfs_symlink_target_lock);
if (target->sd)
target_sd = sysfs_get(target->sd);
- spin_unlock(&sysfs_assoc_lock);
+ spin_unlock(&sysfs_symlink_target_lock);
error = -ENOENT;
if (!target_sd)
@@ -140,10 +142,16 @@ void sysfs_delete_link(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *targ,
const char *name)
{
const void *ns = NULL;
- spin_lock(&sysfs_assoc_lock);
+
+ /*
+ * We don't own @target and it may be removed at any time.
+ * Synchronize using sysfs_symlink_target_lock. See
+ * sysfs_remove_dir() for details.
+ */
+ spin_lock(&sysfs_symlink_target_lock);
if (targ->sd)
ns = targ->sd->s_ns;
- spin_unlock(&sysfs_assoc_lock);
+ spin_unlock(&sysfs_symlink_target_lock);
sysfs_hash_and_remove(kobj->sd, name, ns);
}
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h b/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
index 05d063fe69c7..e3aea92ebfa3 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
+++ b/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ extern struct kmem_cache *sysfs_dir_cachep;
* dir.c
*/
extern struct mutex sysfs_mutex;
-extern spinlock_t sysfs_assoc_lock;
+extern spinlock_t sysfs_symlink_target_lock;
extern const struct dentry_operations sysfs_dentry_ops;
extern const struct file_operations sysfs_dir_operations;