[PATCH v4 3/5] tee: generic TEE subsystem
Greg Kroah-Hartman
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Jul 8 14:11:29 PDT 2015
On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 11:10:26AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 12:16:30PM +0200, Jens Wiklander wrote:
>
> > +static void tee_device_complete_unused(struct kref *kref)
> > +{
> > + struct tee_device *teedev;
> > +
> > + teedev = container_of(kref, struct tee_device, users);
> > + /* When the mutex is released, no other tee_device_get() will succeed */
> > + teedev->desc = NULL;
> > + complete(&teedev->c_no_users);
> > +}
> > +
> > +void tee_device_put(struct tee_device *teedev)
> > +{
> > + mutex_lock(&teedev->mutex);
> > + /* Shouldn't put in this state */
> > + if (!WARN_ON(!teedev->desc))
> > + kref_put(&teedev->users, tee_device_complete_unused);
> > + mutex_unlock(&teedev->mutex);
> > +}
> > +
> > +bool tee_device_get(struct tee_device *teedev)
> > +{
> > + mutex_lock(&teedev->mutex);
> > + if (!teedev->desc) {
> > + mutex_unlock(&teedev->mutex);
> > + return false;
> > + }
> > + kref_get(&teedev->users);
> > + mutex_unlock(&teedev->mutex);
> > + return true;
> > +}
>
> If you are holding the mutex then you don't really need a kref, just a
> simple active count counter.
>
> I've been a bit learly lately about seeing krefs used for something
> other than kfree, I've seen a few subtle mistakes in those schemes -
> yours looks OK, only because of the lock, and the lock makes the kref
> redundant..
>
> > + cdev_init(&teedev->cdev, &tee_fops);
> > + teedev->cdev.owner = teedesc->owner;
>
> This also needs to set teedev->cdev.kobj.parent.
> I'm guessing:
>
> teedev->cdev.kobj.parent = &teedev->dev.kobj;
>
> TPM had the same mistake..
Really? As of a few years ago, A cdev's kobject should not be touched
by anything other than the cdev core. It's not a "real" kobject in that
it is never registered in sysfs, and no one sees it. I keep meaning to
just use something else one of these days for that structure, as lots of
people get it wrong. Or has things changed there?
thanks,
greg k-h
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