Re: [PATCH 0/1] Fix race in ipmi timer cleanup

[Corey Minyard]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 04:36:24PM -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> From: Jes Sorensen <jsorensen@xxxxxx>
> 
> I came across this in 4.16, but I believe the bug is still present
> in current 5.x, even if it is less likely to trigger.
> 
> Basially stop_timer_and_thread() only calls del_timer_sync() if
> timer_running == true. However smi_mod_timer enables the timer before
> setting timer_running = true.

All the modifications/checks for timer_running should be done under
the si_lock.  It looks like a lock is missing in shutdown_smi(),
probably starting before setting interrupt_disabled to true and
after stop_timer_and_thread.  I think that is the right fix for
this problem.

-corey

> 
> I was able to reproduce this in 4.16 running the following on a host
> 
>    while :; do rmmod ipmi_si ; modprobe ipmi_si; done
> 
> while rebooting the BMC on it in parallel.
> 
> 5.2 moves the error handling around and does it more centralized, but
> relying on timer_running still seems dubious to me.
> 
> static void smi_mod_timer(struct smi_info *smi_info, unsigned long new_val)
> {
>         if (!smi_info->timer_can_start)
>                 return;
>         smi_info->last_timeout_jiffies = jiffies;
>         mod_timer(&smi_info->si_timer, new_val);
>         smi_info->timer_running = true;
> }
> 
> static inline void stop_timer_and_thread(struct smi_info *smi_info)
> {
>         if (smi_info->thread != NULL) {
>                 kthread_stop(smi_info->thread);
>                 smi_info->thread = NULL;
>         }
> 
>         smi_info->timer_can_start = false;
>         if (smi_info->timer_running)
>                 del_timer_sync(&smi_info->si_timer);
> }
> 
> Cheers,
> Jes
> 
> Jes Sorensen (1):
>   ipmi_si_intf: Fix race in timer shutdown handling
> 
>  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.21.0
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