Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] uio: fix crash after the device is unregistered

From: Xiubo Li
Date: Fri Jul 06 2018 - 21:47:24 EST


On 2018/7/7 2:58, Mike Christie wrote:
On 07/05/2018 09:57 PM, xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
void uio_event_notify(struct uio_info *info)
{
- struct uio_device *idev = info->uio_dev;
+ struct uio_device *idev;
+
+ if (!info)
+ return;
+
+ idev = info->uio_dev;
For this one too, I am not sure if it is needed.

uio_interrupt -> uio_event_notify. See other mail.

driver XYZ -> uio_event_notify. I think drivers need to handle this and
set some bits and/or perform some cleanup to make sure they are not
calling uio_event_notify after it has called uio_unregister_device. The
problem with the above test is if they do not they could have called
uio_unregister_device right after the info test so you could still hit
the problem.

When we are tcmu_destroy_device(), if the netlink notify event to userspace is not successful then the TCMU will call the uio unregister, which will set the idev->info = NULL, without close and deleting the device in userspace. But the TCMU could still queue cmds to the ring buffer, then the uio_event_notify will be called.

For this case only when using idev->info it would happen. And currently there is no need to check this, I will remove it for now.

Thanks,

BRs