kernel/linux.git/drivers/base/core.c, branch v6.12.80

driver core: generalize driver_override in struct device

2026-04-02T11:09:25+00:00

[ Upstream commit cb3d1049f4ea77d5ad93f17d8ac1f2ed4da70501 ] Currently, there are 12 busses (including platform and PCI) that duplicate the driver_override logic for their individual devices. All of them seem to be prone to the bug described in [1]. While this could be solved for every bus individually using a separate lock, solving this in the driver-core generically results in less (and cleaner) changes overall. Thus, move driver_override to struct device, provide corresponding accessors for busses and handle locking with a separate lock internally. In particular, add device_set_driver_override(), device_has_driver_override(), device_match_driver_override() and generalize the sysfs store() and show() callbacks via a driver_override feature flag in struct bus_type. Until all busses have migrated, keep driver_set_override() in place. Note that we can't use the device lock for the reasons described in [2]. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220789 [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/driver-core/DGRGTIRHA62X.3RY09D9SOK77P@kernel.org/ [2] Tested-by: Gui-Dong Han Co-developed-by: Gui-Dong Han Signed-off-by: Gui-Dong Han Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303115720.48783-2-dakr@kernel.org [ Use dev->bus instead of sp->bus for consistency; fix commit message to refer to the struct bus_type's driver_override feature flag. - Danilo ] Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich Stable-dep-of: 2b38efc05bf7 ("driver core: platform: use generic driver_override infrastructure") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

driver core: fix potential NULL pointer dereference in dev_uevent()

2025-05-02T05:59:29+00:00

commit 18daa52418e7e4629ed1703b64777294209d2622 upstream. If userspace reads "uevent" device attribute at the same time as another threads unbinds the device from its driver, change to dev->driver from a valid pointer to NULL may result in crash. Fix this by using READ_ONCE() when fetching the pointer, and take bus' drivers klist lock to make sure driver instance will not disappear while we access it. Use WRITE_ONCE() when setting the driver pointer to ensure there is no tearing. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250311052417.1846985-3-dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: introduce device_set_driver() helper

2025-05-02T05:59:28+00:00

commit 04d3e5461c1f5cf8eec964ab64948ebed826e95e upstream. In preparation to closing a race when reading driver pointer in dev_uevent() code, instead of setting device->driver pointer directly introduce device_set_driver() helper. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250311052417.1846985-2-dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "drivers: core: synchronize really_probe() and dev_uevent()"

2025-05-02T05:59:28+00:00

commit dc1771f718548f7d4b93991b174c6e7b5e1ba410 upstream. This reverts commit c0a40097f0bc81deafc15f9195d1fb54595cd6d0. Probing a device can take arbitrary long time. In the field we observed that, for example, probing a bad micro-SD cards in an external USB card reader (or maybe cards were good but cables were flaky) sometimes takes longer than 2 minutes due to multiple retries at various levels of the stack. We can not block uevent_show() method for that long because udev is reading that attribute very often and that blocks udev and interferes with booting of the system. The change that introduced locking was concerned with dev_uevent() racing with unbinding the driver. However we can handle it without locking (which will be done in subsequent patch). There was also claim that synchronization with probe() is needed to properly load USB drivers, however this is a red herring: the change adding the lock was introduced in May of last year and USB loading and probing worked properly for many years before that. Revert the harmful locking. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250311052417.1846985-1-dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers: core: fix device leak in __fw_devlink_relax_cycles()

2025-03-13T12:02:16+00:00

commit 78eb41f518f414378643ab022241df2a9dcd008b upstream. Commit bac3b10b78e5 ("driver core: fw_devlink: Stop trying to optimize cycle detection logic") introduced a new struct device *con_dev and a get_dev_from_fwnode() call to get it, but without adding a corresponding put_device(). Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241204124826.2e055091@booty/ Fixes: bac3b10b78e5 ("driver core: fw_devlink: Stop trying to optimize cycle detection logic") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Saravana Kannan Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250213-fix__fw_devlink_relax_cycles_missing_device_put-v2-1-8cd3b03e6a3f@bootlin.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: fw_devlink: Stop trying to optimize cycle detection logic

2024-12-09T09:41:03+00:00

commit bac3b10b78e54b7da3cede397258f75a2180609b upstream. In attempting to optimize fw_devlink runtime, I introduced numerous cycle detection bugs by foregoing cycle detection logic under specific conditions. Each fix has further narrowed the conditions for optimization. It's time to give up on these optimization attempts and just run the cycle detection logic every time fw_devlink tries to create a device link. The specific bug report that triggered this fix involved a supplier fwnode that never gets a device created for it. Instead, the supplier fwnode is represented by the device that corresponds to an ancestor fwnode. In this case, fw_devlink didn't do any cycle detection because the cycle detection logic is only run when a device link is created between the devices that correspond to the actual consumer and supplier fwnodes. With this change, fw_devlink will run cycle detection logic even when creating SYNC_STATE_ONLY proxy device links from a device that is an ancestor of a consumer fwnode. Reported-by: Tomi Valkeinen Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1a1ab663-d068-40fb-8c94-f0715403d276@ideasonboard.com/ Fixes: 6442d79d880c ("driver core: fw_devlink: Improve detection of overlapping cycles") Cc: stable Tested-by: Tomi Valkeinen Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241030171009.1853340-1-saravanak@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'driver-core-6.12-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2024-11-03T18:51:53+00:00

Pull driver core revert from Greg KH: "Here is a single driver core revert for 6.12-rc6. It reverts a change that came in -rc1 that was supposed to resolve a reported problem, but caused another one, so revert it for now so that we can get this all worked out properly in 6.13. The revert has been in linux-next all week with no reported issues" * tag 'driver-core-6.12-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: Revert "driver core: Fix uevent_show() vs driver detach race"

Revert "driver core: Fix uevent_show() vs driver detach race"

2024-10-29T00:23:43+00:00

This reverts commit 15fffc6a5624b13b428bb1c6e9088e32a55eb82c. This commit causes a regression, so revert it for now until it can come back in a way that works for everyone. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/172790598832.1168608.4519484276671503678.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com/ Fixes: 15fffc6a5624 ("driver core: Fix uevent_show() vs driver detach race") Cc: stable Cc: Ashish Sangwan Cc: Namjae Jeon Cc: Dirk Behme Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cxl/port: Fix use-after-free, permit out-of-order decoder shutdown

2024-10-25T21:07:03+00:00

In support of investigating an initialization failure report [1], cxl_test was updated to register mock memory-devices after the mock root-port/bus device had been registered. That led to cxl_test crashing with a use-after-free bug with the following signature: cxl_port_attach_region: cxl region3: cxl_host_bridge.0:port3 decoder3.0 add: mem0:decoder7.0 @ 0 next: cxl_switch_uport.0 nr_eps: 1 nr_targets: 1 cxl_port_attach_region: cxl region3: cxl_host_bridge.0:port3 decoder3.0 add: mem4:decoder14.0 @ 1 next: cxl_switch_uport.0 nr_eps: 2 nr_targets: 1 cxl_port_setup_targets: cxl region3: cxl_switch_uport.0:port6 target[0] = cxl_switch_dport.0 for mem0:decoder7.0 @ 0 1) cxl_port_setup_targets: cxl region3: cxl_switch_uport.0:port6 target[1] = cxl_switch_dport.4 for mem4:decoder14.0 @ 1 [..] cxld_unregister: cxl decoder14.0: cxl_region_decode_reset: cxl_region region3: mock_decoder_reset: cxl_port port3: decoder3.0 reset 2) mock_decoder_reset: cxl_port port3: decoder3.0: out of order reset, expected decoder3.1 cxl_endpoint_decoder_release: cxl decoder14.0: [..] cxld_unregister: cxl decoder7.0: 3) cxl_region_decode_reset: cxl_region region3: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x6b6b6b6b6b6b6bc3: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI [..] RIP: 0010:to_cxl_port+0x8/0x60 [cxl_core] [..] Call Trace: cxl_region_decode_reset+0x69/0x190 [cxl_core] cxl_region_detach+0xe8/0x210 [cxl_core] cxl_decoder_kill_region+0x27/0x40 [cxl_core] cxld_unregister+0x5d/0x60 [cxl_core] At 1) a region has been established with 2 endpoint decoders (7.0 and 14.0). Those endpoints share a common switch-decoder in the topology (3.0). At teardown, 2), decoder14.0 is the first to be removed and hits the "out of order reset case" in the switch decoder. The effect though is that region3 cleanup is aborted leaving it in-tact and referencing decoder14.0. At 3) the second attempt to teardown region3 trips over the stale decoder14.0 object which has long since been deleted. The fix here is to recognize that the CXL specification places no mandate on in-order shutdown of switch-decoders, the driver enforces in-order allocation, and hardware enforces in-order commit. So, rather than fail and leave objects dangling, always remove them. In support of making cxl_region_decode_reset() always succeed, cxl_region_invalidate_memregion() failures are turned into warnings. Crashing the kernel is ok there since system integrity is at risk if caches cannot be managed around physical address mutation events like CXL region destruction. A new device_for_each_child_reverse_from() is added to cleanup port->commit_end after all dependent decoders have been disabled. In other words if decoders are allocated 0->1->2 and disabled 1->2->0 then port->commit_end only decrements from 2 after 2 has been disabled, and it decrements all the way to zero since 1 was disabled previously. Link: http://lore.kernel.org/20241004212504.1246-1-gourry@gourry.net [1] Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 176baefb2eb5 ("cxl/hdm: Commit decoder state to hardware") Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: Alison Schofield Cc: Ira Weiny Cc: Zijun Hu Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny Link: https://patch.msgid.link/172964782781.81806.17902885593105284330.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny

Revert "driver core: don't always lock parent in shutdown"

2024-09-25T09:01:34+00:00

This reverts commit ba6353748e71bd1d7e422fec2b5c2e2dfc2e3bd9. The series is being reverted before -rc1 as there are still reports of lockups on shutdown, so it's not quite ready for "prime time." Reported-by: Andrey Skvortsov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZvMkkhyJrohaajuk@skv.local Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: David Jeffery Cc: Keith Busch Cc: Laurence Oberman Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Sagi Grimberg Cc: Stuart Hayes Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman