Hi folks, This is a refresh of my 2016 RFC patchset to start addressing object lifetime issues in Media controller. It further allows continuing work to address lifetime management of media entities. The underlying problem is described in detail in v4 of the previous RFC: <URL:https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20161108135438.GO3217@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/>. In brief, there is currently no connection between releasing media device (and related) memory and IOCTL calls, meaning that there is a time window during which released kernel memory can be accessed, and that access can be triggered from the user space. The only reason why this is not a grave security issue is that it is not triggerable by the user alone but requires unbinding a device. That is still not an excuse for not fixing it. This set differs from the earlier RFC to address the issue in the following respects: - Make changes for ipu3-cio2 driver, too. - Continue to provide best effort attempt to keep the window between device removal and user space being able to access released memory as small as possible. This means the problem won't become worse for drivers for which Media device lifetime management has not been implemented. The latter is achieved by adding a new object, Media devnode compat reference, which is allocated, refcounted and eventually released by the Media controller framework itself, and where the information on registration and open filehandles is maintained. This is only done if the driver does not manage the lifetime of the media device itself, i.e. its release operation is NULL. Due to this, Media device file handles will also be introduced by this patchset. I thought the first user of this would be Media device events but it seems we already need them here. Both ipu3-cio2 and omap3isp drivers are relieved of devm_request_irq() use, as device_release() releases the resources before calling the driver's remove function. While further work will be required also on these drivers to safely stop he hardware at unbind time, I don't see a reason not to merge these patches now. Some patches are temporarily reverted in order to make reworks easier, then applied later on. I've tested this on ipu3-cio2 with and without the refcounting patch (media: ipu3-cio2: Release the cio2 device context by media device callback), including failures in a few parts of the driver initialisation process in the MC framework. Questions and comments are welcome. since v1: - Align subject prefixes with current media tree practices. - Make release changes to the vimc driver (last patch of the set). This was actually easy as vimc already centralised resource release to struct v4l2_device, so it was just moved to the media device. - Move cdev field to struct media_devnode_compat_ref and add dev field to the struct, these are needed during device release. This now includes also the character device which is accessed by __fput(). I've now tested ipu3-cio2 and vimc with KASAN. As a by-product the kref in struct media_devnode_compat_ref becomes redundant and is removed. Both devices are registered in case of best effort memory safety support and used for refcounting. - Drop omap3isp driver patch moving away from devm_request_irq(). - Add a patch to warn of drivers not releasing media device safely (i.e. relying on the best effort memory safety mechanism without refcounting). - Add a patch to document how the best effort memory release safety helper works. - Add a note on releasing driver's context with the media device, not the V4L2 device, in MC documentation. - Check media device is registered before accessing its fops in media_read(), media_write(), media_ioctl and media_compat_ioctl(). - Document best effort media device lifetime management (new patch). - Use media_devnode_free_minor() in unallocating device node minor number in media_devnode_register(). - Continue to rely on devm_register_irq() in ipu3-cio2 driver but register the IRQ later on (compared to v1). - Drop the patch to move away from devm_request_irq() in omap3isp. - Fix putting references to media device and V4L2 device in v4l2_device_release(). - Add missing media_device_get() (in v1) for M2M devices in video_register_media_controller(). - Unconditionally set the media devnode release function in media_device_init(). There's no harm doing so and the caller of media_device_init() may set the ops after calling the function. Daniel Axtens (1): media: uvcvideo: Refactor teardown of uvc on USB disconnect Laurent Pinchart (1): media: mc: Add per-file-handle data support Logan Gunthorpe (1): media: mc: utilize new cdev_device_add helper function Sakari Ailus (26): Revert "[media] media: fix media devnode ioctl/syscall and unregister race" Revert "media: utilize new cdev_device_add helper function" Revert "[media] media: fix use-after-free in cdev_put() when app exits after driver unbind" Revert "media: uvcvideo: Refactor teardown of uvc on USB disconnect" Revert "[media] media-device: dynamically allocate struct media_devnode" media: mc: Drop nop release callback media: mc: Do not call cdev_device_del() if cdev_device_add() fails media: mc: Delete character device early media: mc: Split initialising and adding media devnode media: mc: Shuffle functions around media: mc: Initialise media devnode in media_device_init() media: mc: Refactor media devnode minor clearing media: mc: Unassign minor only if it has been assigned media: mc: Refcount the media device media: v4l: Acquire a reference to the media device for every video device media: mc: Postpone graph object removal until free media: omap3isp: Release the isp device struct by media device callback media: ipu3-cio2: Call v4l2_device_unregister() earlier media: ipu3-cio2: Request IRQ earlier media: ipu3-cio2: Release the cio2 device context by media device callback media: vimc: Release resources on media device release media: Documentation: Document how Media device resources are released media: mc: Maintain a list of open file handles in a media device media: mc: Implement best effort media device removal safety sans refcount media: mc: Warn about drivers not releasing media device safely media: Documentation: Document media device memory safety helper Documentation/driver-api/media/mc-core.rst | 18 +- drivers/media/cec/core/cec-core.c | 2 +- drivers/media/mc/mc-device.c | 260 ++++++++++++-------- drivers/media/mc/mc-devnode.c | 230 +++++++++++------ drivers/media/pci/intel/ipu3/ipu3-cio2.c | 70 ++++-- drivers/media/platform/ti/omap3isp/isp.c | 24 +- drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-core.c | 15 +- drivers/media/usb/au0828/au0828-core.c | 4 +- drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c | 2 +- drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c | 65 +++-- drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c | 2 +- include/media/media-device.h | 46 +++- include/media/media-devnode.h | 136 +++++++--- include/media/media-fh.h | 32 +++ 14 files changed, 632 insertions(+), 274 deletions(-) create mode 100644 include/media/media-fh.h -- 2.39.2
