This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rapidio: avoid data race between file operation callbacks and mport_cdev_add(). to the 4.14-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: rapidio-avoid-data-race-between-file-operation-callb.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 3e1add86887d465523d236ef3d6207520030f9f5 Author: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jun 4 16:51:21 2020 -0700 rapidio: avoid data race between file operation callbacks and mport_cdev_add(). [ Upstream commit e1c3cdb26ab881b77486dc50370356a349077c74 ] Fields of md(mport_dev) are set after cdev_device_add(). However, the file operation callbacks can be called after cdev_device_add() and therefore accesses to fields of md in the callbacks can race with the rest of the mport_cdev_add() function. One such example is INIT_LIST_HEAD(&md->portwrites) in mport_cdev_add(), the list is initialised after cdev_device_add(). This can race with list_add_tail(&pw_filter->md_node,&md->portwrites) in rio_mport_add_pw_filter() which is called by unlocked_ioctl. To avoid such data races use cdev_device_add() after initializing md. Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org). Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Alexandre Bounine <alex.bou9@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Marshall <hubcap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Allison Randal <allison@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pavel Andrianov <andrianov@xxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200426112950.1803-1-madhuparnabhowmik10@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c b/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c index f15f6d1e1070a..f207f8725993c 100644 --- a/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c +++ b/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c @@ -2464,13 +2464,6 @@ static struct mport_dev *mport_cdev_add(struct rio_mport *mport) cdev_init(&md->cdev, &mport_fops); md->cdev.owner = THIS_MODULE; - ret = cdev_device_add(&md->cdev, &md->dev); - if (ret) { - rmcd_error("Failed to register mport %d (err=%d)", - mport->id, ret); - goto err_cdev; - } - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&md->doorbells); spin_lock_init(&md->db_lock); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&md->portwrites); @@ -2490,6 +2483,13 @@ static struct mport_dev *mport_cdev_add(struct rio_mport *mport) #else md->properties.transfer_mode |= RIO_TRANSFER_MODE_TRANSFER; #endif + + ret = cdev_device_add(&md->cdev, &md->dev); + if (ret) { + rmcd_error("Failed to register mport %d (err=%d)", + mport->id, ret); + goto err_cdev; + } ret = rio_query_mport(mport, &attr); if (!ret) { md->properties.flags = attr.flags;