From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> hmm_release() is called exactly once per hmm. ops->release() cannot accidentally trigger any action that would recurse back onto hmm->mirrors_sem. This fixes a use after-free race of the form: CPU0 CPU1 hmm_release() up_write(&hmm->mirrors_sem); hmm_mirror_unregister(mirror) down_write(&hmm->mirrors_sem); up_write(&hmm->mirrors_sem); kfree(mirror) mirror->ops->release(mirror) The only user we have today for ops->release is an empty function, so this is unambiguously safe. As a consequence of plugging this race drivers are not allowed to register/unregister mirrors from within a release op. Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Philip Yang <Philip.Yang@xxxxxxx> --- mm/hmm.c | 28 +++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c index c30aa9403dbe4d..b224ea635a7716 100644 --- a/mm/hmm.c +++ b/mm/hmm.c @@ -130,26 +130,16 @@ static void hmm_release(struct mmu_notifier *mn, struct mm_struct *mm) */ WARN_ON(!list_empty_careful(&hmm->ranges)); - down_write(&hmm->mirrors_sem); - mirror = list_first_entry_or_null(&hmm->mirrors, struct hmm_mirror, - list); - while (mirror) { - list_del_init(&mirror->list); - if (mirror->ops->release) { - /* - * Drop mirrors_sem so the release callback can wait - * on any pending work that might itself trigger a - * mmu_notifier callback and thus would deadlock with - * us. - */ - up_write(&hmm->mirrors_sem); + down_read(&hmm->mirrors_sem); + list_for_each_entry(mirror, &hmm->mirrors, list) { + /* + * Note: The driver is not allowed to trigger + * hmm_mirror_unregister() from this thread. + */ + if (mirror->ops->release) mirror->ops->release(mirror); - down_write(&hmm->mirrors_sem); - } - mirror = list_first_entry_or_null(&hmm->mirrors, - struct hmm_mirror, list); } - up_write(&hmm->mirrors_sem); + up_read(&hmm->mirrors_sem); hmm_put(hmm); } @@ -279,7 +269,7 @@ void hmm_mirror_unregister(struct hmm_mirror *mirror) struct hmm *hmm = mirror->hmm; down_write(&hmm->mirrors_sem); - list_del_init(&mirror->list); + list_del(&mirror->list); up_write(&hmm->mirrors_sem); hmm_put(hmm); } -- 2.22.0