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ipmi: Move remove_work to dedicated workqueue
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Currently when removing an ipmi_user the removal is deferred as a work on
the system's workqueue. Although this guarantees the free operation will
occur in non atomic context, it can race with the ipmi_msghandler module
removal (see [1]) . In case a remove_user work is scheduled for removal
and shortly after ipmi_msghandler module is removed we can end up in a
situation where the module is removed fist and when the work is executed
the system crashes with :
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffc05c3450
PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode
PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page
because the pages of the module are gone. In cleanup_ipmi() there is no
easy way to detect if there are any pending works to flush them before
removing the module. This patch creates a separate workqueue and schedules
the remove_work works on it. When removing the module the workqueue is
drained when destroyed to avoid the race.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1950666

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.1
Fixes: 3b9a907 (ipmi: fix sleep-in-atomic in free_user at cleanup SRCU user->release_barrier)
Signed-off-by: Ioanna Alifieraki <ioanna-maria.alifieraki@canonical.com>
Message-Id: <20211115131645.25116-1-ioanna-maria.alifieraki@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
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joalif authored and cminyard committed Nov 15, 2021
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13 changes: 12 additions & 1 deletion drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
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Expand Up @@ -191,6 +191,8 @@ struct ipmi_user {
struct work_struct remove_work;
};

struct workqueue_struct *remove_work_wq;

static struct ipmi_user *acquire_ipmi_user(struct ipmi_user *user, int *index)
__acquires(user->release_barrier)
{
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1297,7 +1299,7 @@ static void free_user(struct kref *ref)
struct ipmi_user *user = container_of(ref, struct ipmi_user, refcount);

/* SRCU cleanup must happen in task context. */
schedule_work(&user->remove_work);
queue_work(remove_work_wq, &user->remove_work);
}

static void _ipmi_destroy_user(struct ipmi_user *user)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -5383,6 +5385,13 @@ static int ipmi_init_msghandler(void)

atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list, &panic_block);

remove_work_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("ipmi-msghandler-remove-wq");
if (!remove_work_wq) {
pr_err("unable to create ipmi-msghandler-remove-wq workqueue");
rv = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
}

initialized = true;

out:
Expand All @@ -5408,6 +5417,8 @@ static void __exit cleanup_ipmi(void)
int count;

if (initialized) {
destroy_workqueue(remove_work_wq);

atomic_notifier_chain_unregister(&panic_notifier_list,
&panic_block);

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