On Thu, 17 Mar 2022, philip yang wrote: > On 2022-03-17 11:13 a.m., Lee Jones wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Mar 2022, Felix Kuehling wrote: > > > Am 2022-03-17 um 11:00 schrieb Lee Jones: > > Good afternoon Felix, > > Thanks for your review. > > > Am 2022-03-17 um 09:16 schrieb Lee Jones: > > Presently the Client can be freed whilst still in use. > > Use the already provided lock to prevent this. > > Cc: Felix Kuehling [1]<felix.kuehl...@amd.com> > Cc: Alex Deucher [2]<alexander.deuc...@amd.com> > Cc: "Christian König" [3]<christian.koe...@amd.com> > Cc: "Pan, Xinhui" [4]<xinhui....@amd.com> > Cc: David Airlie [5]<airl...@linux.ie> > Cc: Daniel Vetter [6]<dan...@ffwll.ch> > Cc: [7]amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org > Cc: [8]dri-de...@lists.freedesktop.org > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones [9]<lee.jo...@linaro.org> > --- > drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_smi_events.c | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_smi_events.c > b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/a > mdkfd/kfd_smi_events.c > index e4beebb1c80a2..3b9ac1e87231f 100644 > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_smi_events.c > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_smi_events.c > @@ -145,8 +145,11 @@ static int kfd_smi_ev_release(struct inode *inode, > struct f > ile *filep) > spin_unlock(&dev->smi_lock); > synchronize_rcu(); > + > + spin_lock(&client->lock); > kfifo_free(&client->fifo); > kfree(client); > + spin_unlock(&client->lock); > > The spin_unlock is after the spinlock data structure has been freed. > > Good point. > > If we go forward with this approach the unlock should perhaps be moved > to just before the kfree(). > > > There > should be no concurrent users here, since we are freeing the data structure. > If there still are concurrent users at this point, they will crash anyway. > So the locking is unnecessary. > > The users may well crash, as does the kernel unfortunately. > > We only get to kfd_smi_ev_release when the file descriptor is closed. User > mode has no way to use the client any more at this point. This function also > removes the client from the dev->smi_cllients list. So no more events will > be added to the client. Therefore it is safe to free the client. > > If any of the above were not true, it would not be safe to kfree(client). > > But if it is safe to kfree(client), then there is no need for the locking. > > I'm not keen to go into too much detail until it's been patched. > > However, there is a way to free the client while it is still in use. > > Remember we are multi-threaded. > > files_struct->count refcount is used to handle this race, as > vfs_read/vfs_write takes file refcount and fput calls release only if > refcount is 1, to guarantee that read/write from user space is finished > here. > > Another race is driver add_event_to_kfifo while closing the handler. We > use rcu_read_lock in add_event_to_kfifo, and kfd_smi_ev_release calls > synchronize_rcu to wait for all rcu_read done. So it is safe to call > kfifo_free(&client->fifo) and kfree(client).
Philip, please reach out to Felix. We have discussed this in more detail off-line. -- Lee Jones [李琼斯] Principal Technical Lead - Developer Services Linaro.org │ Open source software for Arm SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog
