On Fri, 2020-10-09 at 07:09 +0200, Nicolai Stange wrote: > Johannes Berg <johan...@sipsolutions.net> writes: > > > On Thu, 2020-10-08 at 15:59 +0000, David Laight wrote: > > > From: Taehee Yoo > > > > Sent: 08 October 2020 16:49 > > > > > > > > When debugfs file is opened, its module should not be removed until > > > > it's closed. > > > > Because debugfs internally uses the module's data. > > > > So, it could access freed memory. > > > > > > > > In order to avoid panic, it just sets .owner to THIS_MODULE. > > > > So that all modules will be held when its debugfs file is opened. > > > > > > Can't you fix it in common code? > > Probably not: it's the call to ->release() that's faulting in the Oops > quoted in the cover letter and that one can't be protected by the > core debugfs code, unfortunately. > > There's a comment in full_proxy_release(), which reads as > > /* > * We must not protect this against removal races here: the > * original releaser should be called unconditionally in order > * not to leak any resources. Releasers must not assume that > * ->i_private is still being meaningful here. > */
Yeah, found that too now :-) > > Yeah I was just wondering that too - weren't the proxy_fops even already > > intended to fix this? > > No, as far as file_operations are concerned, the proxy fops's intent was > only to ensure that the memory the file_operations' ->owner resides in > is still valid so that try_module_get() won't splat at file open > (c.f. [1]). Right. > You're right that the default "full" proxy fops do prevent all > file_operations but ->release() from getting invoked on removed files, > but the motivation had not been to protect the file_operations > themselves, but accesses to any stale data associated with removed files > ([2]). :) I actually got this to work in a crazy way, I'll send something out but I'm sure it's a better idea to add the .owner everywhere, but please let's do it in fewer than hundreds of patches :-) johannes
