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Since commit49d200deaa("debugfs: prevent access to removed files' private data"), accesses to a file's private data are protected from concurrent removal by covering all file_operations with a SRCU read section and sychronizing with those before returning from debugfs_remove() by means of synchronize_srcu(). As pointed out by Johannes Berg, there are debugfs files with forever blocking file_operations. Their corresponding SRCU read side sections would block any debugfs_remove() forever as well, even unrelated ones. This results in a livelock. Because a remover can't cancel any indefinite blocking within foreign files, this is a problem. Resolve this by introducing support for more granular protection on a per-file basis. This is implemented by introducing an 'active_users' refcount_t to the per-file struct debugfs_fsdata state. At file creation time, it is set to one and a debugfs_remove() will drop that initial reference. The new debugfs_file_get() and debugfs_file_put(), intended to be used in place of former debugfs_use_file_start() and debugfs_use_file_finish(), increment and decrement it respectively. Once the count drops to zero, debugfs_file_put() will signal a completion which is possibly being waited for from debugfs_remove(). Thus, as long as there is a debugfs_file_get() not yet matched by a corresponding debugfs_file_put() around, debugfs_remove() will block. Actual users of debugfs_use_file_start() and -finish() will get converted to the new debugfs_file_get() and debugfs_file_put() by followup patches. Fixes:49d200deaa("debugfs: prevent access to removed files' private data") Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.