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authorAlex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>2009-03-13 12:07:36 -0600
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-03-24 16:38:26 -0700
commit669420644c79c207f83fdf9105ae782867e2991f (patch)
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parentffa6a7054d172a2f57248dff2de600ca795c5656 (diff)
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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: vegard.nossum@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sysfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/file.c26
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index 1f4a3f877262..289c43a47263 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -659,13 +659,16 @@ void sysfs_remove_file_from_group(struct kobject *kobj,
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_remove_file_from_group);
struct sysfs_schedule_callback_struct {
- struct kobject *kobj;
+ struct list_head workq_list;
+ struct kobject *kobj;
void (*func)(void *);
void *data;
struct module *owner;
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;
}