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target: Perform RCU callback barrier before backend/fabric unload 

This patch addresses a v4.2-rc1 regression where backend driver
module unload happening immediately after TBO->free_device()
does internal call_rcu(), will currently result in IRQ context
rcu_process_callbacks() use-after-free paging OOPsen.

It adds the missing rcu_barrier() in target_backend_unregister()
to perform an explicit RCU barrier waiting for all RCU callbacks
to complete before releasing target_backend_ops memory, and
allowing TBO->module exit to proceed.

Also, do the same for fabric drivers in target_unregister_template()
to ensure se_deve_entry->rcu_head -> kfree_rcu() callbacks have
completed, before allowing target_core_fabric_ops->owner module
exit to proceed.

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Nicholas Bellinger 2015-07-29 22:27:13 -07:00
parent c4cfdd81c8
commit 9450918293
2 changed files with 17 additions and 2 deletions
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drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c
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@ -457,8 +457,15 @@ void target_unregister_template(const struct target_core_fabric_ops *fo)
if (!strcmp(t->tf_ops->name, fo->name)) {
BUG_ON(atomic_read(&t->tf_access_cnt));
list_del(&t->tf_list);
mutex_unlock(&g_tf_lock);
/*
* Wait for any outstanding fabric se_deve_entry->rcu_head
* callbacks to complete post kfree_rcu(), before allowing
* fabric driver unload of TFO->module to proceed.
*/
rcu_barrier();
kfree(t);
break;
return;
}
}
mutex_unlock(&g_tf_lock);

10
drivers/target/target_core_hba.c
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@ -84,8 +84,16 @@ void target_backend_unregister(const struct target_backend_ops *ops)
list_for_each_entry(tb, &backend_list, list) {
if (tb->ops == ops) {
list_del(&tb->list);
mutex_unlock(&backend_mutex);
/*
* Wait for any outstanding backend driver ->rcu_head
* callbacks to complete post TBO->free_device() ->
* call_rcu(), before allowing backend driver module
* unload of target_backend_ops->owner to proceed.
*/
rcu_barrier();
kfree(tb);
break;
return;
}
}
mutex_unlock(&backend_mutex);