[PATCH v4 11/20] power_supply: Change ownership from driver to core

Darren Hart dvhart at infradead.org
Wed Feb 25 22:14:38 PST 2015


On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 01:45:22AM +0100, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:47:32PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > Change the ownership of power_supply structure from each driver
> > implementing the class to the power supply core.
> > 
> > The patch changes power_supply_register() function thus all drivers
> > implementing power supply class are adjusted.
> > 
> > Each driver provides the implementation of power supply. However it
> > should not be the owner of power supply class instance because it is
> > exposed by core to other subsystems with power_supply_get_by_name().
> > These other subsystems have no knowledge when the driver will unregister
> > the power supply. This leads to several issues when driver is unbound -
> > mostly because user of power supply accesses freed memory.
> > 
> > Instead let the core own the instance of struct 'power_supply'.  Other
> > users of this power supply will still access valid memory because it
> > will be freed when device reference count reaches 0. Currently this
> > means "it will leak" but power_supply_put() call in next patches will
> > solve it.
> > 
> > This solves invalid memory references in following race condition
> > scenario:
> > 
> > Thread 1: charger manager
> > Thread 2: power supply driver, used by charger manager
> > 
> > THREAD 1 (charger manager)         THREAD 2 (power supply driver)
> > ==========================         ==============================
> > psy = power_supply_get_by_name()
> >                                    Driver unbind, .remove
> >                                      power_supply_unregister()
> >                                      Device fully removed
> > psy->get_property()
> > 
> > The 'get_property' call is executed in invalid context because the driver was
> > unbound and struct 'power_supply' memory was freed.
> > 
> > This could be observed easily with charger manager driver (here compiled
> > with max17040 fuel gauge):
> > 
> > $ cat /sys/devices/virtual/power_supply/cm-battery/capacity &
> > $ echo "1-0036" > /sys/bus/i2c/drivers/max17040/unbind
> > [   55.725123] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
> > [   55.732584] pgd = d98d4000
> > [   55.734060] [00000000] *pgd=5afa2831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
> > [   55.740318] Internal error: Oops: 80000007 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
> > [   55.746210] Modules linked in:
> > [   55.749259] CPU: 1 PID: 2936 Comm: cat Tainted: G        W       3.19.0-rc1-next-20141226-00048-gf79f475f3c44-dirty #1496
> > [   55.760190] Hardware name: SAMSUNG EXYNOS (Flattened Device Tree)
> > [   55.766270] task: d9b76f00 ti: daf54000 task.ti: daf54000
> > [   55.771647] PC is at 0x0
> > [   55.774182] LR is at charger_get_property+0x2f4/0x36c
> > [   55.779201] pc : [<00000000>]    lr : [<c034b0b4>]    psr: 60000013
> > [   55.779201] sp : daf55e90  ip : 00000003  fp : 00000000
> > [   55.790657] r10: 00000000  r9 : c06e2878  r8 : d9b26c68
> > [   55.795865] r7 : dad81610  r6 : daec7410  r5 : daf55ebc  r4 : 00000000
> > [   55.802367] r3 : 00000000  r2 : daf55ebc  r1 : 0000002a  r0 : d9b26c68
> > [   55.808879] Flags: nZCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment user
> > [   55.815994] Control: 10c5387d  Table: 598d406a  DAC: 00000015
> > [   55.821723] Process cat (pid: 2936, stack limit = 0xdaf54210)
> > [   55.827451] Stack: (0xdaf55e90 to 0xdaf56000)
> > [   55.831795] 5e80:                                     60000013 c01459c4 0000002a c06f8ef8
> > [   55.839956] 5ea0: db651000 c06f8ef8 daebac00 c04cb668 daebac08 c0346864 00000000 c01459c4
> > [   55.848115] 5ec0: d99eaa80 c06f8ef8 00000fff 00001000 db651000 c027f25c c027f240 d99eaa80
> > [   55.856274] 5ee0: d9a06c00 c0146218 daf55f18 00001000 d99eaa80 db4c18c0 00000001 00000001
> > [   55.864468] 5f00: daf55f80 c0144c78 c0144c54 c0107f90 00015000 d99eaab0 00000000 00000000
> > [   55.872603] 5f20: 000051c7 00000000 db4c18c0 c04a9370 00015000 00001000 daf55f80 00001000
> > [   55.880763] 5f40: daf54000 00015000 00000000 c00e53dc db4c18c0 c00e548c 0000000d 00008124
> > [   55.888937] 5f60: 00000001 00000000 00000000 db4c18c0 db4c18c0 00001000 00015000 c00e5550
> > [   55.897099] 5f80: 00000000 00000000 00001000 00001000 00015000 00000003 00000003 c000f364
> > [   55.905239] 5fa0: 00000000 c000f1a0 00001000 00015000 00000003 00015000 00001000 0001333c
> > [   55.913399] 5fc0: 00001000 00015000 00000003 00000003 00000002 00000000 00000000 00000000
> > [   55.921560] 5fe0: 7fffe000 be999850 0000a225 b6f3c19c 60000010 00000003 00000000 00000000
> > [   55.929744] [<c034b0b4>] (charger_get_property) from [<c0346864>] (power_supply_show_property+0x48/0x20c)
> > [   55.939286] [<c0346864>] (power_supply_show_property) from [<c027f25c>] (dev_attr_show+0x1c/0x48)
> > [   55.948130] [<c027f25c>] (dev_attr_show) from [<c0146218>] (sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x84/0x104)
> > [   55.956298] [<c0146218>] (sysfs_kf_seq_show) from [<c0144c78>] (kernfs_seq_show+0x24/0x28)
> > [   55.964536] [<c0144c78>] (kernfs_seq_show) from [<c0107f90>] (seq_read+0x1b0/0x484)
> > [   55.972172] [<c0107f90>] (seq_read) from [<c00e53dc>] (__vfs_read+0x18/0x4c)
> > [   55.979188] [<c00e53dc>] (__vfs_read) from [<c00e548c>] (vfs_read+0x7c/0x100)
> > [   55.986304] [<c00e548c>] (vfs_read) from [<c00e5550>] (SyS_read+0x40/0x8c)
> > [   55.993164] [<c00e5550>] (SyS_read) from [<c000f1a0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x48)
> > [   56.000626] Code: bad PC value
> > [   56.011652] ---[ end trace 7b64343fbdae8ef1 ]---
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski at samsung.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie at samsung.com>
> > 
> > [for the nvec part]
> > Reviewed-by: Marc Dietrich <marvin24 at gmx.de>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc-xo1-sci.c     |   4 +-
> >  arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc-xo15-sci.c    |   4 +-
> >  drivers/acpi/ac.c                         |  32 +++---
> >  drivers/acpi/battery.c                    |  55 +++++-----
> >  drivers/acpi/sbs.c                        |  68 +++++++-----
> >  drivers/hid/hid-input.c                   |  51 +++++----
> >  drivers/hid/hid-sony.c                    |  43 ++++----
> >  drivers/hid/hid-wiimote-modules.c         |  41 +++----
> >  drivers/hid/hid-wiimote.h                 |   3 +-
> >  drivers/hid/wacom.h                       |   8 +-
> >  drivers/hid/wacom_sys.c                   |  71 ++++++------
> >  drivers/platform/x86/compal-laptop.c      |  29 +++--
> >  drivers/power/[...]                       |  lots of changes
> >  drivers/staging/nvec/nvec_power.c         |  29 +++--
> >  include/linux/hid.h                       |   6 +-
> >  include/linux/mfd/abx500/ux500_chargalg.h |  11 +-
> >  include/linux/mfd/rt5033.h                |   2 +-
> >  include/linux/mfd/wm8350/supply.h         |   6 +-
> >  include/linux/power/charger-manager.h     |   3 +-
> >  include/linux/power_supply.h              |  39 ++++---
> >  80 files changed, 2172 insertions(+), 1756 deletions(-)
> 
> I would like to merge this via the power supply subsystem. Some of
> the files being patched are not under my maintainence, though. It
> would be nice if I get an Acked-By from their maintainers.
> 
> As far as I can see this patch is currently missing feedback from:
> 
> arch/x86/platform/olpc: x86 Maintainers
> drivers/acpi: Rafael J. Wysocki, Len Brown
> drivers/hid: Jiri Kosina
> drivers/platform/x86: Darren Hart

For compal-laptop.c:

Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com>

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center



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