// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
#include "dm-core.h"
/*
* The kobject release method must not be placed in the module itself ,
* otherwise we are subject to module unload races .
*
* The release method is called when the last reference to the kobject is
* dropped . It may be called by any other kernel code that drops the last
* reference .
*
* The release method suffers from module unload race . We may prevent the
* module from being unloaded at the start of the release method ( using
* increased module reference count or synchronizing against the release
* method ) , however there is no way to prevent the module from being
* unloaded at the end of the release method .
*
* If this code were placed in the dm module , the following race may
* happen :
* 1 . Some other process takes a reference to dm kobject
* 2 . The user issues ioctl function to unload the dm device
* 3 . dm_sysfs_exit calls kobject_put , however the object is not released
* because of the other reference taken at step 1
* 4 . dm_sysfs_exit waits on the completion
* 5 . The other process that took the reference in step 1 drops it ,
* dm_kobject_release is called from this process
* 6 . dm_kobject_release calls complete ( )
* 7 . a reschedule happens before dm_kobject_release returns
* 8 . dm_sysfs_exit continues , the dm device is unloaded , module reference
* count is decremented
* 9 . The user unloads the dm module
* 10 . The other process that was rescheduled in step 7 continues to run ,
* it is now executing code in unloaded module , so it crashes
*
* Note that if the process that takes the foreign reference to dm kobject
* has a low priority and the system is sufficiently loaded with
* higher - priority processes that prevent the low - priority process from
* being scheduled long enough , this bug may really happen .
*
* In order to fix this module unload race , we place the release method
* into a helper code that is compiled directly into the kernel .
*/
void dm_kobject_release(struct kobject *kobj)
{
complete(dm_get_completion_from_kobject(kobj));
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dm_kobject_release);
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