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In the current code, dev_map_free() can still race with dev_map_notification().
In dev_map_free(), we remove dtab from the list of dtabs after we purged
all entries from it. However, we don't do xchg() with NULL or the like,
so the entry at that point is still pointing to the device. If a unregister
notification comes in at the same time, we therefore risk a double-free,
since the pointer is still present in the map, and then pushed again to
__dev_map_entry_free().
All this is completely unnecessary. Just remove the dtab from the list
right before the synchronize_rcu(), so all outstanding readers from the
notifier list have finished by then, thus we don't need to deal with this
corner case anymore and also wouldn't need to nullify dev entires. This is
fine because we iterate over the map releasing all entries and therefore
dev references anyway.
Fixes:
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| Documentation | ||
| arch | ||
| block | ||
| certs | ||
| crypto | ||
| drivers | ||
| firmware | ||
| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
README
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.