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Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] of: __of_detach_node() - remove node from phandle cache

From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: 2018-12-17 10:52:37
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Hi Frank,

frowand.list@gmail.com writes:
From: Frank Rowand <redacted>

Non-overlay dynamic devicetree node removal may leave the node in
the phandle cache.  Subsequent calls to of_find_node_by_phandle()
will incorrectly find the stale entry.  Remove the node from the
cache.

Add paranoia checks in of_find_node_by_phandle() as a second level
of defense (do not return cached node if detached, do not add node
to cache if detached).

Reported-by: Michael Bringmann <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <redacted>
---
Similarly here can we add:

Fixes: 0b3ce78e90fc ("of: cache phandle nodes to reduce cost of of_find_node_by_phandle()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.17+


Thanks for doing this series.

Some minor comments below.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/drivers/of/base.c b/drivers/of/base.c
index 6c33d63361b8..ad71864cecf5 100644
--- a/drivers/of/base.c
+++ b/drivers/of/base.c
@@ -162,6 +162,27 @@ int of_free_phandle_cache(void)
 late_initcall_sync(of_free_phandle_cache);
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * Caller must hold devtree_lock.
+ */
+void __of_free_phandle_cache_entry(phandle handle)
+{
+	phandle masked_handle;
+
+	if (!handle)
+		return;
We could fold the phandle_cache check into that if and return early for
both cases couldn't we?
+	masked_handle = handle & phandle_cache_mask;
+
+	if (phandle_cache) {
Meaning this wouldn't be necessary.
+		if (phandle_cache[masked_handle] &&
+		    handle == phandle_cache[masked_handle]->phandle) {
+			of_node_put(phandle_cache[masked_handle]);
+			phandle_cache[masked_handle] = NULL;
+		}
A temporary would help the readability here I think, eg:

	struct device_node *np;
        np = phandle_cache[masked_handle];

	if (np && handle == np->phandle) {
		of_node_put(np);
		phandle_cache[masked_handle] = NULL;
	}
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
@@ -1209,11 +1230,18 @@ struct device_node *of_find_node_by_phandle(phandle handle)
 		if (phandle_cache[masked_handle] &&
 		    handle == phandle_cache[masked_handle]->phandle)
 			np = phandle_cache[masked_handle];
+		if (np && of_node_check_flag(np, OF_DETACHED)) {
+			WARN_ON(1);
+			of_node_put(np);
Do we really want to do the put here?

We're here because something has gone wrong, possibly even memory
corruption such that np is not even pointing at a device node anymore.
So it seems like it would be safer to just leave the ref count alone,
possibly leak a small amount of memory, and NULL out the reference.


cheers
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