Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: Convert timers to use timer_setup()

From: Bryan O'Donoghue
Date: Tue Oct 24 2017 - 09:30:19 EST


On 24/10/17 14:14, Kees Cook wrote:
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 5:52 AM, Bryan O'Donoghue
<pure.logic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 24/10/17 13:47, Kees Cook wrote:

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 2:40 AM, Bryan O'Donoghue
<pure.logic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 24/10/17 10:35, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:


On 24/10/17 09:25, Kees Cook wrote:


In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list
pointer
to
all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and
from_timer()
to pass the timer pointer explicitly.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Bryan O'Donoghue" <pure.logic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: greybus-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c | 14 ++++----------
drivers/staging/greybus/operation.c | 7 +++----
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c
b/drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c
index 08e255884206..045aaf81113a 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c
@@ -572,16 +572,11 @@ static void
gb_loopback_async_operation_work(struct
work_struct *work)
gb_loopback_async_operation_put(op_async);
}
-static void gb_loopback_async_operation_timeout(unsigned long data)
+static void gb_loopback_async_operation_timeout(struct timer_list *t)
{
- struct gb_loopback_async_operation *op_async;
- u16 id = data;
+ struct gb_loopback_async_operation *op_async =
+ from_timer(op_async, t, timer);
- op_async = gb_loopback_operation_find(id);
- if (!op_async) {
- pr_err("operation %d not found - time out ?\n", id);
- return;
- }



Hi Kees, you need to add

gb_loopback_async_operation_get(op_async); when dropping the
gb_loopback_operation_find() call here.



Actually:

spin_lock_irqsave(&gb_dev.lock, flags);
gb_loopback_async_operation_get(op_async);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gb_dev.lock, flags);

Shouldn't the get/put follow the lifetime of the timer running
instead? It shouldnt' be possible to free the op_async while the timer
is still pending/running.

The timeout timer runs for an operation that never completed but on the
regular "everything is good" path you end up doing
del_timer_sync(&op_async->timer); so the timer doesn't run.

As far as I can tell, the get/put is already happening external to the timer:

gb_loopback_async_operation():
...
op_async = kzalloc(sizeof(*op_async), GFP_KERNEL);
...
INIT_WORK(&op_async->work, gb_loopback_async_operation_work);
kref_init(&op_async->kref);
...
op_async->pending = true;
...
ret = gb_operation_request_send(operation,
gb_loopback_async_operation_callback,
0,
GFP_KERNEL);
...
timer_setup(&op_async->timer, gb_loopback_async_operation_timeout, 0);
op_async->timer.expires = jiffies + gb->jiffy_timeout;
add_timer(&op_async->timer);


gb_loopback_async_operation_callback(): (run by operation)
...
op_async->pending = false;
del_timer_sync(&op_async->timer);
gb_loopback_async_operation_put(op_async);


gb_loopback_async_operation_work(): (scheduled by timer)
...
op_async->pending = false;
gb_loopback_async_operation_put(op_async);



(Doing a get/put in the timer callback itself shouldn't be happening:
it must already be pinned in memory for the callback to run.)

Both gb_loopback_async_operation_callback() and (gb_loopback_async_operation_timeout || gb_loopback_async_operation_work()) can run in parallel so the get in the timer callback means we can let the timer stuff free-run w/r to gb_loopback_async_operation_callback() - take a reference indicating we still want that object and then let gb_loopback_async_operation_work() run.

---
bod