From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>,
kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>,
Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kobject: Make sure the parent does not get released before its children
Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 15:14:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200524131405.GA24073@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200524125727.GA2430@kroah.com>
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 02:57:27PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 08:44:06AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On 5/23/20 8:36 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 06:18:40PM +0300, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> > >> In the function kobject_cleanup(), kobject_del(kobj) is
> > >> called before the kobj->release(). That makes it possible to
> > >> release the parent of the kobject before the kobject itself.
> > >>
> > >> To fix that, adding function __kboject_del() that does
> > >> everything that kobject_del() does except release the parent
> > >> reference. kobject_cleanup() then calls __kobject_del()
> > >> instead of kobject_del(), and separately decrements the
> > >> reference count of the parent kobject after kobj->release()
> > >> has been called.
> > >>
> > >> Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
> > >> Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
> > >> Fixes: 7589238a8cf3 ("Revert "software node: Simplify software_node_release() function"")
> > >> Suggested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
> > >> Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> > >> Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
> > >> Tested-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
> > >> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> > >> ---
> > >> lib/kobject.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++----------
> > >> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > Stepping back, now that it turns out this patch causes more problems
> > > than it fixes, how is everyone reproducing the original crash here?
> >
> > Just load lib/test_printf.ko and boom!
>
> Thanks, that helps.
>
> Ok, in messing around with the kobject core more, originally we thought
> this was an issue of the kobject uevent happening for the parent pointer
> (when the parent was invalid). so, moving things around some more, and
> now I'm crashing in software_node_release() when we are trying to access
> swnode->parent->child_ids as parent is invalid there.
>
> So I feel like this is a swnode bug, or a use of swnode in a way it
> shouldn't be that the testing framework is exposing somehow.
>
> Let me dig deeper...
Ah, ick, static software nodes trying to be cleaned up in the totally
wrong order. You can't just try to randomly clean up a kobject anywhere
in the middle of the hierarchy, that's flat out not going to work
properly. let me unwind it...
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-24 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-13 15:18 [PATCH] kobject: Make sure the parent does not get released before its children Heikki Krogerus
2020-05-13 15:20 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-05-13 15:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-05-13 15:51 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-05-13 20:18 ` Brendan Higgins
2020-05-13 20:54 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-05-13 21:30 ` Brendan Higgins
2020-05-13 23:14 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-05-14 6:54 ` Heikki Krogerus
2020-05-15 15:10 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-05-23 13:21 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-05-23 13:29 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-05-23 14:04 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-05-23 15:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-05-23 15:44 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-05-23 19:04 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2020-05-24 11:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-05-24 12:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-05-24 13:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2020-05-24 13:28 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-05-24 15:35 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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