4.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 74b44bbe80b4c62113ac1501482ea1ee40eb9d67 upstream. rvt_mregion uses percpu_ref for reference counting and RCU to protect accesses from lkey_table. When a rvt_mregion needs to be freed, it first gets unregistered from lkey_table and then rvt_check_refs() is called to wait for in-flight usages before the rvt_mregion is freed. rvt_check_refs() seems to have a couple issues. * It has a fast exit path which tests percpu_ref_is_zero(). However, a percpu_ref reading zero doesn't mean that the object can be released. In fact, the ->release() callback might not even have started executing yet. Proceeding with freeing can lead to use-after-free. * lkey_table is RCU protected but there is no RCU grace period in the free path. percpu_ref uses RCU internally but it's sched-RCU whose grace periods are different from regular RCU. Also, it generally isn't a good idea to depend on internal behaviors like this. To address the above issues, this patch removes the fast exit and adds an explicit synchronize_rcu(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/mr.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/mr.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/mr.c @@ -489,11 +489,13 @@ static int rvt_check_refs(struct rvt_mre unsigned long timeout; struct rvt_dev_info *rdi = ib_to_rvt(mr->pd->device); - if (percpu_ref_is_zero(&mr->refcount)) - return 0; - /* avoid dma mr */ - if (mr->lkey) + if (mr->lkey) { + /* avoid dma mr */ rvt_dereg_clean_qps(mr); + /* @mr was indexed on rcu protected @lkey_table */ + synchronize_rcu(); + } + timeout = wait_for_completion_timeout(&mr->comp, 5 * HZ); if (!timeout) { rvt_pr_err(rdi, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html