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From: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: "Alvin Šipraga" <ALSI@bang-olufsen.dk>,
	"Vladimir Oltean" <olteanv@gmail.com>,
	"Vladimir Oltean" <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Florian Fainelli" <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	"Vivien Didelot" <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>,
	"Frank Rowand" <frowand.list@gmail.com>,
	"Rob Herring" <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: sja1105: fix use-after-free after calling of_find_compatible_node, or worse
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:10:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGETcx-47UCb+pgfvtSYLOM+XQE76e14Z2o6ihire5E=Ajbv0g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YR/sWodANPdthPyA@lunn.ch>

On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 10:54 AM Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
>
> > 3. If dsa_register_switch() fails, we can't defer the probe (because
> > it already succeeded). But I'm not sure if it's a likely error code.
>
> That is not a safe assumption. The tagging driver can be a module, and

I don't know what "tagging driver" means. And yes, this is just a test
patch for now.

> not be loaded yet. So we defer probing to allow it to load.
>
> Ethernet switches can be a big graph of parts, not a nice tree of
> parts.

fw_devlink can handle graphs well. It has cycle detection for a reason
:) Look at slide 10 for a complicated example:
https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/7/contributions/787/attachments/529/942/LPC_2020_-_fw_devlink.pdf

However, after sending that email I realized that fw_devlink=on would
make sure all the dependencies of this device would have probed first
before it allows this to probe. So EPROBE_DEFER can't really happen.
But for now I just want to see if it fixes the issue Alvin was seeing.

-Saravana

  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-20 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-17 14:52 [PATCH net] net: dsa: sja1105: fix use-after-free after calling of_find_compatible_node, or worse Vladimir Oltean
2021-08-17 21:25 ` Alvin Šipraga
2021-08-17 22:05   ` Andrew Lunn
2021-08-17 22:19     ` Alvin Šipraga
2021-08-17 22:31   ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-08-17 22:40     ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-08-17 23:01     ` Alvin Šipraga
2021-08-18  2:46     ` Saravana Kannan
2021-08-18 10:18       ` Alvin Šipraga
2021-08-19  3:28         ` Saravana Kannan
2021-08-19 11:22           ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-08-19 13:46             ` Alvin Šipraga
2021-08-20  0:50             ` Saravana Kannan
2021-08-19 13:35           ` Andrew Lunn
2021-08-19 23:52             ` Saravana Kannan
2021-08-20  0:37               ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-08-20  1:25                 ` Saravana Kannan
2021-08-20 13:01               ` Andrew Lunn
2021-08-19 13:42           ` Alvin Šipraga
2021-08-20  1:08             ` Saravana Kannan
2021-08-20 16:52               ` Saravana Kannan
2021-08-20 17:54                 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-08-20 18:10                   ` Saravana Kannan [this message]
2021-08-22 14:19                 ` Alvin Šipraga
2021-08-23 18:50                   ` Saravana Kannan
2021-08-23 20:43                     ` Andrew Lunn
2021-08-23 21:23                       ` Saravana Kannan
2021-08-25 13:40                     ` Alvin Šipraga
2021-08-26  5:33                       ` Saravana Kannan
2021-08-26  7:49                         ` Saravana Kannan
2021-08-26 11:09                         ` Alvin Šipraga
2021-08-18  9:30 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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