[PATCH] rapidio: Avoid data race between file operation callbacks and mport_cdev_add().

From: madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com
To: mporter@kernel.crashing.org, alex.bou9@gmail.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, dan.carpenter@oracle.com,
	hubcap@omnibond.com, tglx@linutronix.de, ira.weiny@intel.com,
	allison@lohutok.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andrianov@ispras.ru,
	ldv-project@linuxtesting.org,
	Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] rapidio: Avoid data race between file operation callbacks and mport_cdev_add().
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 16:59:50 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200426112950.1803-1-madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com> (raw)

From: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com>

Fields of md(mport_dev) are set after cdev_device_add().
However, the file operation callbacks can be called after
cdev_device_add() and therefore accesses to fields of md in the
callbacks can race with the rest of the mport_cdev_add() function.

One such example is INIT_LIST_HEAD(&md->portwrites) in
mport_cdev_add(), the list is initialised after cdev_device_add().
This can race with list_add_tail(&pw_filter->md_node,&md->portwrites)
in rio_mport_add_pw_filter() which is called by unlocked_ioctl.

To avoid such data races use cdev_device_add() after initializing md.

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c | 14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c b/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c
index 8155f59ece38..40296378e5ee 100644
--- a/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c
+++ b/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c
@@ -2379,13 +2379,6 @@ static struct mport_dev *mport_cdev_add(struct rio_mport *mport)
 	cdev_init(&md->cdev, &mport_fops);
 	md->cdev.owner = THIS_MODULE;
 
-	ret = cdev_device_add(&md->cdev, &md->dev);
-	if (ret) {
-		rmcd_error("Failed to register mport %d (err=%d)",
-		       mport->id, ret);
-		goto err_cdev;
-	}
-
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&md->doorbells);
 	spin_lock_init(&md->db_lock);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&md->portwrites);
@@ -2405,6 +2398,13 @@ static struct mport_dev *mport_cdev_add(struct rio_mport *mport)
 #else
 	md->properties.transfer_mode |= RIO_TRANSFER_MODE_TRANSFER;
 #endif
+
+	ret = cdev_device_add(&md->cdev, &md->dev);
+	if (ret) {
+		rmcd_error("Failed to register mport %d (err=%d)",
+		       mport->id, ret);
+		goto err_cdev;
+	}
 	ret = rio_query_mport(mport, &attr);
 	if (!ret) {
 		md->properties.flags = attr.flags;
-- 
2.17.1

