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IB/uverbs: Fix race between ib_uverbs_open and remove_one
Fixes: 2a72f21 ("IB/uverbs: Remove dev_table") Before this commit there was a device look-up table that was protected by a spin_lock used by ib_uverbs_open and by ib_uverbs_remove_one. When it was dropped and container_of was used instead, it enabled the race with remove_one as dev might be freed just after: dev = container_of(inode->i_cdev, struct ib_uverbs_device, cdev) but before the kref_get. In addition, this buggy patch added some dead code as container_of(x,y,z) can never be NULL and so dev can never be NULL. As a result the comment above ib_uverbs_open saying "the open method will either immediately run -ENXIO" is wrong as it can never happen. The solution follows Jason Gunthorpe suggestion from below URL: https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org/msg25692.html cdev will hold a kref on the parent (the containing structure, ib_uverbs_device) and only when that kref is released it is guaranteed that open will never be called again. In addition, fixes the active count scheme to use an atomic not a kref to prevent WARN_ON as pointed by above comment from Jason. Signed-off-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Shachar Raindel <raindel@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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