On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 16:30 -0400, Joern Engel wrote:
> It is possible for one thread to to take se_sess->sess_cmd_lock in
> core_tmr_abort_task() before taking a reference count on
> se_cmd->cmd_kref, while another thread in target_put_sess_cmd() drops
> se_cmd->cmd_kref before taking se_sess->sess_cmd_lock.
>
> This introduces kref_put_spinlock_irqsave() and uses it in
> target_put_sess_cmd() to close the race window.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <jo...@logfs.org>
> ---
I'm fine with applying this one..
Greg-KH, are you OK with the kref.h changes here..?
--nab
> drivers/target/target_core_transport.c | 11 +++++------
> include/linux/kref.h | 33
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
> b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
> index 3243ea7..0d46276 100644
> --- a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
> +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
> @@ -2213,21 +2213,19 @@ static void target_release_cmd_kref(struct kref *kref)
> {
> struct se_cmd *se_cmd = container_of(kref, struct se_cmd, cmd_kref);
> struct se_session *se_sess = se_cmd->se_sess;
> - unsigned long flags;
>
> - spin_lock_irqsave(&se_sess->sess_cmd_lock, flags);
> if (list_empty(&se_cmd->se_cmd_list)) {
> - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&se_sess->sess_cmd_lock, flags);
> + spin_unlock(&se_sess->sess_cmd_lock);
> se_cmd->se_tfo->release_cmd(se_cmd);
> return;
> }
> if (se_sess->sess_tearing_down && se_cmd->cmd_wait_set) {
> - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&se_sess->sess_cmd_lock, flags);
> + spin_unlock(&se_sess->sess_cmd_lock);
> complete(&se_cmd->cmd_wait_comp);
> return;
> }
> list_del(&se_cmd->se_cmd_list);
> - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&se_sess->sess_cmd_lock, flags);
> + spin_unlock(&se_sess->sess_cmd_lock);
>
> se_cmd->se_tfo->release_cmd(se_cmd);
> }
> @@ -2238,7 +2236,8 @@ static void target_release_cmd_kref(struct kref *kref)
> */
> int target_put_sess_cmd(struct se_session *se_sess, struct se_cmd *se_cmd)
> {
> - return kref_put(&se_cmd->cmd_kref, target_release_cmd_kref);
> + return kref_put_spinlock_irqsave(&se_cmd->cmd_kref,
> target_release_cmd_kref,
> + &se_sess->sess_cmd_lock);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(target_put_sess_cmd);
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/kref.h b/include/linux/kref.h
> index 4972e6e..7419c02 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kref.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kref.h
> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
> #include <linux/atomic.h>
> #include <linux/kernel.h>
> #include <linux/mutex.h>
> +#include <linux/spinlock.h>
>
> struct kref {
> atomic_t refcount;
> @@ -95,6 +96,38 @@ static inline int kref_put(struct kref *kref, void
> (*release)(struct kref *kref)
> return kref_sub(kref, 1, release);
> }
>
> +/**
> + * kref_put_spinlock_irqsave - decrement refcount for object.
> + * @kref: object.
> + * @release: pointer to the function that will clean up the object when the
> + * last reference to the object is released.
> + * This pointer is required, and it is not acceptable to pass kfree
> + * in as this function.
> + * @lock: lock to take in release case
> + *
> + * Behaves identical to kref_put with one exception. If the reference count
> + * drops to zero, the lock will be taken atomically wrt dropping the
> reference
> + * count. The release function has to call spin_unlock() without
> _irqrestore.
> + */
> +static inline int kref_put_spinlock_irqsave(struct kref *kref,
> + void (*release)(struct kref *kref),
> + spinlock_t *lock)
> +{
> + unsigned long flags;
> +
> + WARN_ON(release == NULL);
> + if (atomic_add_unless(&kref->refcount, -1, 1))
> + return 0;
> + spin_lock_irqsave(lock, flags);
> + if (atomic_dec_and_test(&kref->refcount)) {
> + release(kref);
> + local_irq_restore(flags);
> + return 1;
> + }
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(lock, flags);
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> static inline int kref_put_mutex(struct kref *kref,
> void (*release)(struct kref *kref),
> struct mutex *lock)
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