On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 1:05 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 12:34:40PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 1:56 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman >> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 08:36:17AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: >> >> > So even if you think the kernel is not going to do this, remember, you >> >> > have no control over it. Reference counted objects are done this way >> >> > for a reason, you really do not know who has a reference and you really >> >> > do not care. >> >> > >> >> > You are just papering over the real issue here, see my previous email >> >> > for how to start working on resolving it. >> >> >> >> IMO, there isn't real issue, and the issue is actually in 'delay release'. >> > >> > Nope, sorry, that is not true. >> > >> >> Please look at the code in block/blk-mq-sysfs.c, both q->mq_kobj and all >> >> ctx->kobj share same lifetime with q->kobj, we even don't call get/put >> >> on q->mq_kobj & all ctx->kobj, and all are simply released in q->kobj's >> >> release handler. >> > >> > How do you "know" you are keeping those lifetimes in sync? The joy of a >> > kobject is that _ANYTHING_ can grab a reference to your object without >> > you knowing about it. That includes userspace programs. Yes, sysfs is >> > now much better and it trys to release that reference "quickly" when it >> > determines you are trying to delete a kobject, but it's not perfict, >> > there are still races there. >> > >> > And that is what the delay release code is showing you. It is showing >> > you that you "think" your reference counting is wrong, but it is not. >> > It is showing you that if someone else grabs a reference, you are not >> > correctly cleaning up for yourself. >> > >> > Never think that you really know the lifetime of a kobject, once you >> > realize that your code gets simpler and you can then just "trust" that >> > the kernel will do the right thing no matter what. >> > >> > Because really, you are using a kobject because you want that correct >> > reference counting logic. By ignoring that logic, you are ignoring the >> > reason to be using that object at all. If you don't need reference >> > counting, then don't use it at all. >> > >> > And if you need sysfs files, then you need to use the kobject and then >> > you need to handle it properly, because again, you do NOT have full >> > control over the lifetime of your object. That's the basis for >> > reference counting in the firstplace. >> > >> > So this code is broken without me evening having to look at it, please >> > fix it to handle release properly. Again, the kernel tried to tell you >> > this, but you hacked around the kernel core to remove that warning >> > incorrectly. Please go read the kobject documentation again for even >> > more details about this than what I said here. >> > >> > thanks, >> > >> > greg k-h >> >> Whoever is the right person to fix this, please prioritize this to the >> degree possible. >> This issue does not allow to use DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE in any >> automated testing (in particular syzbot) on both upstream and stable >> trees. We have to disable it for now, so other bugs won't be noticed >> and will pile up. > > Patches for this have already been posted :) This is great. What is the patch name? I can't find anything that looks relevant on LKML searching by kobject.
