Re: [PATCH] drm/i915/hwmon: Get rid of devm

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Hi Ashutosh,

On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 07:56:46AM -0700, Ashutosh Dixit wrote:
> When both hwmon and hwmon drvdata (on which hwmon depends) are device
> managed resources, the expectation, on device unbind, is that hwmon will be
> released before drvdata. However, in i915 there are two separate code
> paths, which both release either drvdata or hwmon and either can be
> released before the other. These code paths (for device unbind) are as
> follows (see also the bug referenced below):
> 
> Call Trace:
> release_nodes+0x11/0x70
> devres_release_group+0xb2/0x110
> component_unbind_all+0x8d/0xa0
> component_del+0xa5/0x140
> intel_pxp_tee_component_fini+0x29/0x40 [i915]
> intel_pxp_fini+0x33/0x80 [i915]
> i915_driver_remove+0x4c/0x120 [i915]
> i915_pci_remove+0x19/0x30 [i915]
> pci_device_remove+0x32/0xa0
> device_release_driver_internal+0x19c/0x200
> unbind_store+0x9c/0xb0
> 
> and
> 
> Call Trace:
> release_nodes+0x11/0x70
> devres_release_all+0x8a/0xc0
> device_unbind_cleanup+0x9/0x70
> device_release_driver_internal+0x1c1/0x200
> unbind_store+0x9c/0xb0
> 
> This means that in i915, if use devm, we cannot gurantee that hwmon will
> always be released before drvdata. Which means that we have a uaf if hwmon
> sysfs is accessed when drvdata has been released but hwmon hasn't.
> 
> The only way out of this seems to be do get rid of devm_ and release/free
> everything explicitly during device unbind.
> 
> v2: Change commit message and other minor code changes
> v3: Cleanup from i915_hwmon_register on error (Armin Wolf)
> v4: Eliminate potential static analyzer warning (Rodrigo)
>     Eliminate fetch_and_zero (Jani)
> v5: Restore previous logic for ddat_gt->hwmon_dev error return (Andi)

Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Andi



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