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Vasant Hegde 72ccbd1481 powerpc/powernv/dump: Fix race while processing OPAL dump
[ Upstream commit 0a43ae3e2beb77e3481d812834d33abe270768ab ]

Every dump reported by OPAL is exported to userspace through a sysfs
interface and notified using kobject_uevent(). The userspace daemon
(opal_errd) then reads the dump and acknowledges that the dump is
saved safely to disk. Once acknowledged the kernel removes the
respective sysfs file entry causing respective resources to be
released including kobject.

However it's possible the userspace daemon may already be scanning
dump entries when a new sysfs dump entry is created by the kernel.
User daemon may read this new entry and ack it even before kernel can
notify userspace about it through kobject_uevent() call. If that
happens then we have a potential race between
dump_ack_store->kobject_put() and kobject_uevent which can lead to
use-after-free of a kernfs object resulting in a kernel crash.

This patch fixes this race by protecting the sysfs file
creation/notification by holding a reference count on kobject until we
safely send kobject_uevent().

The function create_dump_obj() returns the dump object which if used
by caller function will end up in use-after-free problem again.
However, the return value of create_dump_obj() function isn't being
used today and there is no need as well. Hence change it to return
void to make this fix complete.

Fixes: c7e64b9ce0 ("powerpc/powernv Platform dump interface")
Signed-off-by: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201017164210.264619-1-hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2020-10-29 09:58:00 +01:00
arch powerpc/powernv/dump: Fix race while processing OPAL dump 2020-10-29 09:58:00 +01:00
block blk-mq: move cancel of hctx->run_work to the front of blk_exit_queue 2020-10-29 09:57:34 +01:00
certs
crypto crypto: algif_skcipher - EBUSY on aio should be an error 2020-10-29 09:57:30 +01:00
Documentation x86/fpu: Allow multiple bits in clearcpuid= parameter 2020-10-29 09:57:29 +01:00
drivers lightnvm: fix out-of-bounds write to array devices->info[] 2020-10-29 09:58:00 +01:00
fs ext4: limit entries returned when counting fsmap records 2020-10-29 09:57:55 +01:00
include PCI/IOV: Mark VFs as not implementing PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY 2020-10-29 09:57:54 +01:00
init kprobes: tracing/kprobes: Fix to kill kprobes on initmem after boot 2020-10-01 13:18:23 +02:00
ipc
kernel module: statically initialize init section freeing data 2020-10-29 09:57:55 +01:00
lib lib/crc32.c: fix trivial typo in preprocessor condition 2020-10-29 09:57:52 +01:00
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mm mm/page_owner: change split_page_owner to take a count 2020-10-29 09:57:52 +01:00
net netfilter: nf_fwd_netdev: clear timestamp in forwarding path 2020-10-29 09:57:57 +01:00
samples bpf: Fix fds_example SIGSEGV error 2020-08-19 08:16:03 +02:00
scripts scripts/dtc: only append to HOST_EXTRACFLAGS instead of overwriting 2020-10-07 08:01:29 +02:00
security ima: Don't ignore errors from crypto_shash_update() 2020-10-29 09:57:28 +01:00
sound ASoC: fsl_sai: Instantiate snd_soc_dai_driver 2020-10-29 09:57:42 +01:00
tools selftests/powerpc: Fix eeh-basic.sh exit codes 2020-10-29 09:57:52 +01:00
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