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authorPaul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>2019-12-02 11:41:16 +0000
committerJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>2019-12-04 11:35:32 +0100
commit196748a276b4dee01177e6b7abcda27cd759de83 (patch)
treeaa6b4957093d5db5daef3581963436ed7be1b748 /drivers/xen
parentb3f7931f5c61ba39e81a5c958bf5d65ebb1838af (diff)
downloadlinux-196748a276b4dee01177e6b7abcda27cd759de83.tar.gz
xen/xenbus: reference count registered modules
To prevent a PV driver module being removed whilst attached to its other
end, and hence xenbus calling into potentially invalid text, take a
reference on the module before calling the probe() method (dropping it if
unsuccessful) and drop the reference after returning from the remove()
method.

Suggested-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/xen')
-rw-r--r--drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c
index 5b471889d723..c21be6e9d38a 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c
@@ -232,9 +232,16 @@ int xenbus_dev_probe(struct device *_dev)
 		return err;
 	}
 
+	if (!try_module_get(drv->driver.owner)) {
+		dev_warn(&dev->dev, "failed to acquire module reference on '%s'\n",
+			 drv->driver.name);
+		err = -ESRCH;
+		goto fail;
+	}
+
 	err = drv->probe(dev, id);
 	if (err)
-		goto fail;
+		goto fail_put;
 
 	err = watch_otherend(dev);
 	if (err) {
@@ -244,6 +251,8 @@ int xenbus_dev_probe(struct device *_dev)
 	}
 
 	return 0;
+fail_put:
+	module_put(drv->driver.owner);
 fail:
 	xenbus_dev_error(dev, err, "xenbus_dev_probe on %s", dev->nodename);
 	xenbus_switch_state(dev, XenbusStateClosed);
@@ -263,6 +272,8 @@ int xenbus_dev_remove(struct device *_dev)
 	if (drv->remove)
 		drv->remove(dev);
 
+	module_put(drv->driver.owner);
+
 	free_otherend_details(dev);
 
 	xenbus_switch_state(dev, XenbusStateClosed);