Hi Dan, This were supposed to be C/C to you. Thanks and Regards, Mauro Forwarded message: Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 08:08:39 -0200 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] [media] media-entity: cache media_device on object removal As pointed by Dan, the patch f8fd4c61b5ae: "[media] media-entity: protect object creation/removal using spin lock" leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/media/media-entity.c:781 media_remove_intf_link() error: dereferencing freed memory 'link' drivers/media/media-entity.c 777 void media_remove_intf_link(struct media_link *link) 778 { 779 spin_lock(&link->graph_obj.mdev->lock); 780 __media_remove_intf_link(link); 781 spin_unlock(&link->graph_obj.mdev->lock); In practice, I didn't see any troubles even with KASAN enabled. I guess gcc optimizer internally cached the mdev reference, instead of getting it twice. Yet, it is a very bad idea to rely on such optimization. So, let's fix the code. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/media-entity.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/media-entity.c b/drivers/media/media-entity.c index 29810f9b86ce..6c3f4041797c 100644 --- a/drivers/media/media-entity.c +++ b/drivers/media/media-entity.c @@ -580,13 +580,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__media_entity_remove_links); void media_entity_remove_links(struct media_entity *entity) { + struct media_device *mdev = entity->graph_obj.mdev; + /* Do nothing if the entity is not registered. */ - if (entity->graph_obj.mdev == NULL) + if (mdev == NULL) return; - spin_lock(&entity->graph_obj.mdev->lock); + spin_lock(&mdev->lock); __media_entity_remove_links(entity); - spin_unlock(&entity->graph_obj.mdev->lock); + spin_unlock(&mdev->lock); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(media_entity_remove_links); @@ -781,9 +783,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__media_remove_intf_link); void media_remove_intf_link(struct media_link *link) { - spin_lock(&link->graph_obj.mdev->lock); + struct media_device *mdev = link->graph_obj.mdev; + + /* Do nothing if the intf is not registered. */ + if (mdev == NULL) + return; + + spin_lock(&mdev->lock); __media_remove_intf_link(link); - spin_unlock(&link->graph_obj.mdev->lock); + spin_unlock(&mdev->lock); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(media_remove_intf_link); @@ -799,12 +807,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__media_remove_intf_links); void media_remove_intf_links(struct media_interface *intf) { + struct media_device *mdev = intf->graph_obj.mdev; + /* Do nothing if the intf is not registered. */ - if (intf->graph_obj.mdev == NULL) + if (mdev == NULL) return; - spin_lock(&intf->graph_obj.mdev->lock); + spin_lock(&mdev->lock); __media_remove_intf_links(intf); - spin_unlock(&intf->graph_obj.mdev->lock); + spin_unlock(&mdev->lock); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(media_remove_intf_links); -- 2.5.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html