Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 next]module: Fix mod->mkobj.kobj potentially freed too early

From: Rusty Russell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:08:27 +0930

Greg KH <[email-masked]> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 03:37:55PM +0800, Li Zhong wrote:
>> DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE helps to find the issue attached below.
> People are starting to hit these types of issues, and I'd like to take
> this one out of the picture.
>
> Rusty, any objection to me taking this through my driver-core tree,
> where this new config option shows up?

The original fix was better.

Moving the module_kobject out and giving it its own lifetime solves this
immediate issue, but it still means there's an accessible module_kobject
around referring to a module which doesn't exist any more.

Original copied below, feel free to take it.

Cheers,
Rusty.

From: Li Zhong <[email-masked]>
Subject: module: Fix mod->mkobj.kobj potentially freed too early

DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE helps to find the issue attached below.

After some investigation, it seems the reason is:
The mod->mkobj.kobj(ffffffffa01600d0 below) is freed together with mod
itself in free_module(). However, its children still hold references to
it, as the delay caused by DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE. So when the
child(holders below) tries to decrease the reference count to its parent
in kobject_del(), BUG happens as it tries to access already freed memory.

This patch tries to fix it by waiting for the mod->mkobj.kobj to be
really released in the module removing process (and some error code
paths).

[ 1844.175287] kobject: 'holders' (ffff88007c1f1600): kobject_release, parent ffffffffa01600d0 (delayed)
[ 1844.178991] kobject: 'notes' (ffff8800370b2a00): kobject_release, parent ffffffffa01600d0 (delayed)
[ 1845.180118] kobject: 'holders' (ffff88007c1f1600): kobject_cleanup, parent ffffffffa01600d0
[ 1845.182130] kobject: 'holders' (ffff88007c1f1600): auto cleanup kobject_del
[ 1845.184120] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffa01601d0
[ 1845.185026] IP: [<ffffffff812cda81>] kobject_put+0x11/0x60
[ 1845.185026] PGD 1a13067 PUD 1a14063 PMD 7bd30067 PTE 0
[ 1845.185026] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT
[ 1845.185026] Modules linked in: xfs libcrc32c [last unloaded: kprobe_example]
[ 1845.185026] CPU: 0 PID: 18 Comm: kworker/0:1 Tainted: G           O 3.11.0-rc6-next-20130819+ #1
[ 1845.185026] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2007
[ 1845.185026] Workqueue: events kobject_delayed_cleanup
[ 1845.185026] task: ffff88007ca51f00 ti: ffff88007ca5c000 task.ti: ffff88007ca5c000
[ 1845.185026] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff812cda81>]  [<ffffffff812cda81>] kobject_put+0x11/0x60
[ 1845.185026] RSP: 0018:ffff88007ca5dd08  EFLAGS: 00010282
[ 1845.185026] RAX: 0000000000002000 RBX: ffffffffa01600d0 RCX: ffffffff8177d638
[ 1845.185026] RDX: ffff88007ca5dc18 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffffa01600d0
[ 1845.185026] RBP: ffff88007ca5dd18 R08: ffffffff824e9810 R09: ffffffffffffffff
[ 1845.185026] R10: ffff8800ffffffff R11: dead4ead00000001 R12: ffffffff81a95040
[ 1845.185026] R13: ffff88007b27a960 R14: ffff88007c1f1600 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 1845.185026] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff81a23000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 1845.185026] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[ 1845.185026] CR2: ffffffffa01601d0 CR3: 0000000037207000 CR4: 00000000000006b0
[ 1845.185026] Stack:
[ 1845.185026]  ffff88007c1f1600 ffff88007c1f1600 ffff88007ca5dd38 ffffffff812cdb7e
[ 1845.185026]  0000000000000000 ffff88007c1f1640 ffff88007ca5dd68 ffffffff812cdbfe
[ 1845.185026]  ffff88007c974800 ffff88007c1f1640 ffff88007ff61a00 0000000000000000
[ 1845.185026] Call Trace:
[ 1845.185026]  [<ffffffff812cdb7e>] kobject_del+0x2e/0x40
[ 1845.185026]  [<ffffffff812cdbfe>] kobject_delayed_cleanup+0x6e/0x1d0
[ 1845.185026]  [<ffffffff81063a45>] process_one_work+0x1e5/0x670
[ 1845.185026]  [<ffffffff810639e3>] ? process_one_work+0x183/0x670
[ 1845.185026]  [<ffffffff810642b3>] worker_thread+0x113/0x370
[ 1845.185026]  [<ffffffff810641a0>] ? rescuer_thread+0x290/0x290
[ 1845.185026]  [<ffffffff8106bfba>] kthread+0xda/0xe0
[ 1845.185026]  [<ffffffff814ff0f0>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x30/0x60
[ 1845.185026]  [<ffffffff8106bee0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x130/0x130
[ 1845.185026]  [<ffffffff8150751a>] ret_from_fork+0x7a/0xb0
[ 1845.185026]  [<ffffffff8106bee0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x130/0x130
[ 1845.185026] Code: 81 48 c7 c7 28 95 ad 81 31 c0 e8 9b da 01 00 e9 4f ff ff ff 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 53 48 89 fb 48 83 ec 08 48 85 ff 74 1d <f6> 87 00 01 00 00 01 74 1e 48 8d 7b 38 83 6b 38 01 0f 94 c0 84
[ 1845.185026] RIP  [<ffffffff812cda81>] kobject_put+0x11/0x60
[ 1845.185026]  RSP <ffff88007ca5dd08>
[ 1845.185026] CR2: ffffffffa01601d0
[ 1845.185026] ---[ end trace 49a70afd109f5653 ]---

Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[email-masked]>
---
 include/linux/module.h |  1 +
 kernel/module.c        | 14 +++++++++++---
 kernel/params.c        |  7 +++++++
 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index 504035f..05f2447 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ struct module_kobject {
 	struct module *mod;
 	struct kobject *drivers_dir;
 	struct module_param_attrs *mp;
+	struct completion *kobj_completion;
 };
 
 struct module_attribute {
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 40ee1dc..9f5ddae 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -1612,6 +1612,14 @@ static void module_remove_modinfo_attrs(struct module *mod)
 	kfree(mod->modinfo_attrs);
 }
 
+static void mod_kobject_put(struct module *mod)
+{
+	DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(c);
+	mod->mkobj.kobj_completion = &c;
+	kobject_put(&mod->mkobj.kobj);
+	wait_for_completion(&c);
+}
+
 static int mod_sysfs_init(struct module *mod)
 {
 	int err;
@@ -1639,7 +1647,7 @@ static int mod_sysfs_init(struct module *mod)
 	err = kobject_init_and_add(&mod->mkobj.kobj, &module_ktype, NULL,
 				   "%s", mod->name);
 	if (err)
-		kobject_put(&mod->mkobj.kobj);
+		mod_kobject_put(mod);
 
 	/* delay uevent until full sysfs population */
 out:
@@ -1683,7 +1691,7 @@ out_unreg_param:
 out_unreg_holders:
 	kobject_put(mod->holders_dir);
 out_unreg:
-	kobject_put(&mod->mkobj.kobj);
+	mod_kobject_put(mod);
 out:
 	return err;
 }
@@ -1692,7 +1700,7 @@ static void mod_sysfs_fini(struct module *mod)
 {
 	remove_notes_attrs(mod);
 	remove_sect_attrs(mod);
-	kobject_put(&mod->mkobj.kobj);
+	mod_kobject_put(mod);
 }
 
 #else /* !CONFIG_SYSFS */
diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index e5f8f17..501bde4 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -915,7 +915,14 @@ static const struct kset_uevent_ops module_uevent_ops = {
 struct kset *module_kset;
 int module_sysfs_initialized;
 
+static void module_kobj_release(struct kobject *kobj)
+{
+	struct module_kobject *mk = to_module_kobject(kobj);
+	complete(mk->kobj_completion);
+}
+
 struct kobj_type module_ktype = {
+	.release   =	module_kobj_release,
 	.sysfs_ops =	&module_sysfs_ops,
 };