Re: [PATCH] epoll: try to be a _bit_ better about file lifetimes

From: Al Viro
Date: Fri May 03 2024 - 19:03:43 EST


On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 03:46:25PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 02:52:38PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > That means that the file will be released - and it means that you have
> > violated all the refcounting rules for poll().
>
> I feel like I've been looking at this too long. I think I see another
> problem here, but with dmabuf even when epoll is fixed:
>
> dma_buf_poll()
> get_file(dmabuf->file) /* f_count + 1 */
> dma_buf_poll_add_cb()
> dma_resv_for_each_fence ...
> dma_fence_add_callback(fence, ..., dma_buf_poll_cb)
>
> dma_buf_poll_cb()
> ...
> fput(dmabuf->file); /* f_count - 1 ... for each fence */
>
> Isn't it possible to call dma_buf_poll_cb() (and therefore fput())
> multiple times if there is more than 1 fence? Perhaps I've missed a
> place where a single struct dma_resv will only ever signal 1 fence? But
> looking through dma_fence_signal_timestamp_locked(), I don't see
> anything about resv nor somehow looking into other fence cb_list
> contents...

At a guess,
r = dma_fence_add_callback(fence, &dcb->cb, dma_buf_poll_cb);
if (!r)
return true;

prevents that - it returns 0 on success and -E... on error;
insertion into the list happens only when it's returning 0,
so...