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| author | Paul Durrant | 2019-12-10 14:53:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Juergen Gross | 2019-12-13 08:34:06 +0100 |
| commit | fa2ac657f9783f0891b2935490afe9a7fd29d3fa (patch) | |
| tree | 0aa8c9c49904c2b31db2d5e05f5e29cdb2b80779 | |
| parent | 14855954f63608c5622d5eaa964d3872ce5c5514 (diff) | |
xen-blkback: prevent premature module unload
Objects allocated by xen_blkif_alloc come from the 'blkif_cache' kmem
cache. This cache is destoyed when xen-blkif is unloaded so it is
necessary to wait for the deferred free routine used for such objects to
complete. This necessity was missed in commit 14855954f636 "xen-blkback:
allow module to be cleanly unloaded". This patch fixes the problem by
taking/releasing extra module references in xen_blkif_alloc/free()
respectively.
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c index e8c5c54e1d26..d6a6adfd5159 100644 --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c @@ -171,6 +171,15 @@ static struct xen_blkif *xen_blkif_alloc(domid_t domid) blkif->domid = domid; atomic_set(&blkif->refcnt, 1); init_completion(&blkif->drain_complete); + + /* + * Because freeing back to the cache may be deferred, it is not + * safe to unload the module (and hence destroy the cache) until + * this has completed. To prevent premature unloading, take an + * extra module reference here and release only when the object + * has been freed back to the cache. + */ + __module_get(THIS_MODULE); INIT_WORK(&blkif->free_work, xen_blkif_deferred_free); return blkif; @@ -320,6 +329,7 @@ static void xen_blkif_free(struct xen_blkif *blkif) /* Make sure everything is drained before shutting down */ kmem_cache_free(xen_blkif_cachep, blkif); + module_put(THIS_MODULE); } int __init xen_blkif_interface_init(void) |