Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] [SCSI] sg: fix race condition in sg_open

From: Douglas Gilbert
Date: Thu Jul 25 2013 - 16:34:26 EST


On 13-07-25 11:32 AM, vaughan wrote:
On 07/23/2013 01:03 AM, JÃrn Engel wrote:
On Mon, 22 July 2013 12:40:29 +0800, Vaughan Cao wrote:
There is a race when open sg with O_EXCL flag. Also a race may happen between
sg_open and sg_remove.

Changes from v4:
* [3/4] use ERR_PTR series instead of adding another parameter in sg_add_sfp
* [4/4] fix conflict for cherry-pick from v3.

Changes from v3:
* release o_sem in sg_release(), not in sg_remove_sfp().
* not set exclude with sfd_lock held.

Vaughan Cao (4):
[SCSI] sg: use rwsem to solve race during exclusive open
[SCSI] sg: no need sg_open_exclusive_lock
[SCSI] sg: checking sdp->detached isn't protected when open
[SCSI] sg: push file descriptor list locking down to per-device
locking

drivers/scsi/sg.c | 178 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
1 file changed, 83 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)
Patchset looks good to me, although I didn't test it on hardware yet.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxx>

James, care to pick this up?

JÃrn
Hi James,

sg driver has two races happen in
a) exclusive open and non-exclusive open
b) sg removal and sg open
I explained the scenario detail in the separate patches. I did test
those patches and
JÃrn has reviewed them. I got no response from Doug Gilbert for a long
time.
Would you care to pick these up?

Hi,
Your patches applied with a little noise to lk 3.10.2 and
gave this warning from the build.

CC [M] drivers/scsi/sg.o
drivers/scsi/sg.c: In function âsg_openâ:
drivers/scsi/sg.c:242:6: warning: unused variable âresâ [-Wunused-variable]

I'll keep testing ...

Doug Gilbert


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