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Parav Pandit 5715c4dd66 vfio/mdev: Synchronize device create/remove with parent removal
In following sequences, child devices created while removing mdev parent
device can be left out, or it may lead to race of removing half
initialized child mdev devices.

issue-1:
--------
       cpu-0                         cpu-1
       -----                         -----
                                  mdev_unregister_device()
                                    device_for_each_child()
                                      mdev_device_remove_cb()
                                        mdev_device_remove()
create_store()
  mdev_device_create()                   [...]
    device_add()
                                  parent_remove_sysfs_files()

/* BUG: device added by cpu-0
 * whose parent is getting removed
 * and it won't process this mdev.
 */

issue-2:
--------
Below crash is observed when user initiated remove is in progress
and mdev_unregister_driver() completes parent unregistration.

       cpu-0                         cpu-1
       -----                         -----
remove_store()
   mdev_device_remove()
   active = false;
                                  mdev_unregister_device()
                                  parent device removed.
   [...]
   parents->ops->remove()
 /*
  * BUG: Accessing invalid parent.
  */

This is similar race like create() racing with mdev_unregister_device().

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffc0585668
PGD e8f618067 P4D e8f618067 PUD e8f61a067 PMD 85adca067 PTE 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
CPU: 41 PID: 37403 Comm: bash Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.1.0-rc6-vdevbus+ #6
Hardware name: Supermicro SYS-6028U-TR4+/X10DRU-i+, BIOS 2.0b 08/09/2016
RIP: 0010:mdev_device_remove+0xfa/0x140 [mdev]
Call Trace:
 remove_store+0x71/0x90 [mdev]
 kernfs_fop_write+0x113/0x1a0
 vfs_write+0xad/0x1b0
 ksys_write+0x5a/0xe0
 do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x210
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

Therefore, mdev core is improved as below to overcome above issues.

Wait for any ongoing mdev create() and remove() to finish before
unregistering parent device.
This continues to allow multiple create and remove to progress in
parallel for different mdev devices as most common case.
At the same time guard parent removal while parent is being accessed by
create() and remove() callbacks.
create()/remove() and unregister_device() are synchronized by the rwsem.

Refactor device removal code to mdev_device_remove_common() to avoid
acquiring unreg_sem of the parent.

Fixes: 7b96953bc6 ("vfio: Mediated device Core driver")
Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2019-06-06 12:32:37 -06:00
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