This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xen-blkback: prevent premature module unload to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: xen-blkback-prevent-premature-module-unload.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b86f94e36d3afd1630c503953e08d199a755d8a1 Author: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Dec 10 14:53:05 2019 +0000 xen-blkback: prevent premature module unload [ Upstream commit fa2ac657f9783f0891b2935490afe9a7fd29d3fa ] Objects allocated by xen_blkif_alloc come from the 'blkif_cache' kmem cache. This cache is destoyed when xen-blkif is unloaded so it is necessary to wait for the deferred free routine used for such objects to complete. This necessity was missed in commit 14855954f636 "xen-blkback: allow module to be cleanly unloaded". This patch fixes the problem by taking/releasing extra module references in xen_blkif_alloc/free() respectively. Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c index ad736d7de838..1d1f86657967 100644 --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c @@ -178,6 +178,15 @@ static struct xen_blkif *xen_blkif_alloc(domid_t domid) blkif->domid = domid; atomic_set(&blkif->refcnt, 1); init_completion(&blkif->drain_complete); + + /* + * Because freeing back to the cache may be deferred, it is not + * safe to unload the module (and hence destroy the cache) until + * this has completed. To prevent premature unloading, take an + * extra module reference here and release only when the object + * has been freed back to the cache. + */ + __module_get(THIS_MODULE); INIT_WORK(&blkif->free_work, xen_blkif_deferred_free); return blkif; @@ -322,6 +331,7 @@ static void xen_blkif_free(struct xen_blkif *blkif) /* Make sure everything is drained before shutting down */ kmem_cache_free(xen_blkif_cachep, blkif); + module_put(THIS_MODULE); } int __init xen_blkif_interface_init(void)