[PATCH V2 1/2] uio: change to use the mutex lock instead of the spin lock

From: xiubli
Date: Thu Jul 05 2018 - 20:07:02 EST


From: Xiubo Li <xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx>

We are hitting a regression with the following commit:

commit a93e7b331568227500186a465fee3c2cb5dffd1f
Author: Hamish Martin <hamish.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon May 14 13:32:23 2018 +1200

uio: Prevent device destruction while fds are open

The problem is the addition of spin_lock_irqsave in uio_write. This
leads to hitting uio_write -> copy_from_user -> _copy_from_user ->
might_fault and the logs filling up with sleeping warnings.

I also noticed some uio drivers allocate memory, sleep, grab mutexes
from callouts like open() and release and uio is now doing
spin_lock_irqsave while calling them.

Reported-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Hamish Martin <hamish.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/uio/uio.c | 33 ++++++++++++++-------------------
include/linux/uio_driver.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/uio/uio.c b/drivers/uio/uio.c
index e8f4ac9..33c3bfe 100644
--- a/drivers/uio/uio.c
+++ b/drivers/uio/uio.c
@@ -433,7 +433,6 @@ static int uio_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filep)
struct uio_device *idev;
struct uio_listener *listener;
int ret = 0;
- unsigned long flags;

mutex_lock(&minor_lock);
idev = idr_find(&uio_idr, iminor(inode));
@@ -460,10 +459,10 @@ static int uio_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filep)
listener->event_count = atomic_read(&idev->event);
filep->private_data = listener;

- spin_lock_irqsave(&idev->info_lock, flags);
+ mutex_lock(&idev->info_lock);
if (idev->info && idev->info->open)
ret = idev->info->open(idev->info, inode);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&idev->info_lock, flags);
+ mutex_unlock(&idev->info_lock);
if (ret)
goto err_infoopen;

@@ -495,12 +494,11 @@ static int uio_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filep)
int ret = 0;
struct uio_listener *listener = filep->private_data;
struct uio_device *idev = listener->dev;
- unsigned long flags;

- spin_lock_irqsave(&idev->info_lock, flags);
+ mutex_lock(&idev->info_lock);
if (idev->info && idev->info->release)
ret = idev->info->release(idev->info, inode);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&idev->info_lock, flags);
+ mutex_unlock(&idev->info_lock);

module_put(idev->owner);
kfree(listener);
@@ -513,12 +511,12 @@ static __poll_t uio_poll(struct file *filep, poll_table *wait)
struct uio_listener *listener = filep->private_data;
struct uio_device *idev = listener->dev;
__poll_t ret = 0;
- unsigned long flags;

- spin_lock_irqsave(&idev->info_lock, flags);
+ mutex_lock(&idev->info_lock);
if (!idev->info || !idev->info->irq)
ret = -EIO;
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&idev->info_lock, flags);
+ mutex_unlock(&idev->info_lock);
+ if (!idev->info || !idev->info->irq)

if (ret)
return ret;
@@ -537,12 +535,11 @@ static ssize_t uio_read(struct file *filep, char __user *buf,
DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current);
ssize_t retval = 0;
s32 event_count;
- unsigned long flags;

- spin_lock_irqsave(&idev->info_lock, flags);
+ mutex_lock(&idev->info_lock);
if (!idev->info || !idev->info->irq)
retval = -EIO;
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&idev->info_lock, flags);
+ mutex_unlock(&idev->info_lock);

if (retval)
return retval;
@@ -592,9 +589,8 @@ static ssize_t uio_write(struct file *filep, const char __user *buf,
struct uio_device *idev = listener->dev;
ssize_t retval;
s32 irq_on;
- unsigned long flags;

- spin_lock_irqsave(&idev->info_lock, flags);
+ mutex_lock(&idev->info_lock);
if (!idev->info || !idev->info->irq) {
retval = -EIO;
goto out;
@@ -618,7 +614,7 @@ static ssize_t uio_write(struct file *filep, const char __user *buf,
retval = idev->info->irqcontrol(idev->info, irq_on);

out:
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&idev->info_lock, flags);
+ mutex_unlock(&idev->info_lock);
return retval ? retval : sizeof(s32);
}

@@ -865,7 +861,7 @@ int __uio_register_device(struct module *owner,

idev->owner = owner;
idev->info = info;
- spin_lock_init(&idev->info_lock);
+ mutex_init(&idev->info_lock);
init_waitqueue_head(&idev->wait);
atomic_set(&idev->event, 0);

@@ -928,7 +924,6 @@ int __uio_register_device(struct module *owner,
void uio_unregister_device(struct uio_info *info)
{
struct uio_device *idev;
- unsigned long flags;

if (!info || !info->uio_dev)
return;
@@ -942,9 +937,9 @@ void uio_unregister_device(struct uio_info *info)
if (info->irq && info->irq != UIO_IRQ_CUSTOM)
free_irq(info->irq, idev);

- spin_lock_irqsave(&idev->info_lock, flags);
+ mutex_lock(&idev->info_lock);
idev->info = NULL;
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&idev->info_lock, flags);
+ mutex_unlock(&idev->info_lock);

device_unregister(&idev->dev);

diff --git a/include/linux/uio_driver.h b/include/linux/uio_driver.h
index 6c5f207..6f8b68c 100644
--- a/include/linux/uio_driver.h
+++ b/include/linux/uio_driver.h
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ struct uio_device {
struct fasync_struct *async_queue;
wait_queue_head_t wait;
struct uio_info *info;
- spinlock_t info_lock;
+ struct mutex info_lock;
struct kobject *map_dir;
struct kobject *portio_dir;
};
--
1.8.3.1