On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 8:58 AM Todd Poynor <toddpoy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Todd Poynor <toddpoy...@google.com>
>
> g_mutex held across pci_unregister_driver() call, also held in
> gasket_pci_remove(), which deadlocks.
>
> Reported-by: Dmitry Torokhov <d...@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Zhongze Hu <fran...@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor <toddpoy...@google.com>
> ---
> drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c | 7 ++-----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c
> b/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c
> index 3bdf7d36b397..6d240dc59557 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c
> @@ -668,13 +668,10 @@ static void gasket_pci_remove(struct pci_dev *pci_dev)
> struct gasket_dev *gasket_dev = NULL;
> const struct gasket_driver_desc *driver_desc;
> /* Find the device desc. */
> - mutex_lock(&g_mutex);
> + __must_hold(&g_mutex);
And what exactly ensures that mutex is held here? Yes, we are holding
the mutex when we unload the driver, but PCI hot-unplug or unbinding
the device though sysfs do not go through module unload code path, so
you'll end up here without holding the mutex.
> internal_desc = lookup_internal_desc(pci_dev);
> - if (!internal_desc) {
> - mutex_unlock(&g_mutex);
> + if (!internal_desc)
> return;
> - }
> - mutex_unlock(&g_mutex);
>
> driver_desc = internal_desc->driver_desc;
Thanks,
Dmitry
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