From: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 52a3974feb1a3eec25d8836d37a508b67b0a9cd0 ] Get and put the reference to the ctrl in the nvme_dev_open() and nvme_dev_release() before and after module get/put for ctrl in char device file operations. Introduce char_dev relase function, get/put the controller and module which allows us to fix the potential Oops which can be easily reproduced with a passthru ctrl (although the problem also exists with pure user access): Entering kdb (current=0xffff8887f8290000, pid 3128) on processor 30 Oops: (null) due to oops @ 0xffffffffa01019ad CPU: 30 PID: 3128 Comm: bash Tainted: G W OE 5.8.0-rc4nvme-5.9+ #35 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.0-59-gc9ba5276e321-prebuilt.qemu.4 RIP: 0010:nvme_free_ctrl+0x234/0x285 [nvme_core] Code: 57 10 a0 e8 73 bf 02 e1 ba 3d 11 00 00 48 c7 c6 98 33 10 a0 48 c7 c7 1d 57 10 a0 e8 5b bf 02 e1 8 RSP: 0018:ffffc90001d63de0 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: ffffffffa05c0440 RBX: ffff8888119e45a0 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8888177e9550 RDI: ffff8888119e43b0 RBP: ffff8887d4768000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffc90001d63c90 R12: ffff8888119e43b0 R13: ffff8888119e5108 R14: dead000000000100 R15: ffff8888119e5108 FS: 00007f1ef27b0740(0000) GS:ffff888817600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffffffffa05c0470 CR3: 00000007f6bee000 CR4: 00000000003406e0 Call Trace: device_release+0x27/0x80 kobject_put+0x98/0x170 nvmet_passthru_ctrl_disable+0x4a/0x70 [nvmet] nvmet_passthru_enable_store+0x4c/0x90 [nvmet] configfs_write_file+0xe6/0x150 vfs_write+0xba/0x1e0 ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0 do_syscall_64+0x52/0xb0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 RIP: 0033:0x7f1ef1eb2840 Code: Bad RIP value. RSP: 002b:00007fffdbff0eb8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 00007f1ef1eb2840 RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 00007f1ef27d2000 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: 00007f1ef27d2000 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 00007f1ef27b0740 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f1ef2186400 R13: 0000000000000002 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000 With this patch fix we take the module ref count in nvme_dev_open() and release that ref count in newly introduced nvme_dev_release(). Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c index 2cd32901d95c7..24c6d5a446b79 100644 --- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c @@ -2933,10 +2933,24 @@ static int nvme_dev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) return -EWOULDBLOCK; } + nvme_get_ctrl(ctrl); + if (!try_module_get(ctrl->ops->module)) + return -EINVAL; + file->private_data = ctrl; return 0; } +static int nvme_dev_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) +{ + struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl = + container_of(inode->i_cdev, struct nvme_ctrl, cdev); + + module_put(ctrl->ops->module); + nvme_put_ctrl(ctrl); + return 0; +} + static int nvme_dev_user_cmd(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, void __user *argp) { struct nvme_ns *ns; @@ -2999,6 +3013,7 @@ static long nvme_dev_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, static const struct file_operations nvme_dev_fops = { .owner = THIS_MODULE, .open = nvme_dev_open, + .release = nvme_dev_release, .unlocked_ioctl = nvme_dev_ioctl, .compat_ioctl = nvme_dev_ioctl, }; -- 2.25.1