[PATCH net v3 1/5] ptp: drain virtual clock sysfs operations before unregistering children
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From: James Hilliard <hidden>
Date: 2026-10-13 19:19:50
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Subsystem:
networking drivers, ptp hardware clock support, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Richard Cochran, Linus Torvalds
Revision v3 of 3 in this series.
Revisions (3)
- v2 [diff vs current]
- v3 current
- v4 [diff vs current]
Parent clock removal walks its virtual clocks before removing the
n_vclocks sysfs attribute. The mutex taken by ptp_vclock_in_use() is
released before that walk, so a concurrent sysfs deletion can pick the
same child and unregister and free its ptp_vclock a second time. A
reference held by the device iterator does not protect that separately
allocated virtual clock.
Remove n_vclocks before walking the children. Removing the attribute
prevents new stores and drains stores already running, without holding
n_vclocks_mux across a callback that needs that mutex. Skip virtual
clocks, which do not have this attribute.
This race was found by code inspection of virtual-clock registration
failure cleanup and parent removal.
Fixes: bfcbb76b0f59 ("ptp: unregister virtual clocks when unregistering physical clock.")
Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <redacted>
---
drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c | 5 +++++
drivers/ptp/ptp_private.h | 1 +
drivers/ptp/ptp_sysfs.c | 6 ++++++
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c b/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
index 4111342d64f0..47ffc773065a 100644
--- a/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
+++ b/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c@@ -508,6 +508,11 @@ static int unregister_vclock(struct device *dev, void *data) int ptp_clock_unregister(struct ptp_clock *ptp) { + /* + * Stop and drain virtual-clock creation and deletion before walking the + * children. Do not hold n_vclocks_mux while waiting for sysfs callbacks. + */ + ptp_vclock_remove_sysfs(ptp); if (ptp_vclock_in_use(ptp)) { device_for_each_child(&ptp->dev, NULL, unregister_vclock); }
diff --git a/drivers/ptp/ptp_private.h b/drivers/ptp/ptp_private.h
index db4039d642b4..ec8633126d6b 100644
--- a/drivers/ptp/ptp_private.h
+++ b/drivers/ptp/ptp_private.h@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ extern const struct attribute_group *ptp_groups[]; int ptp_populate_pin_groups(struct ptp_clock *ptp); void ptp_cleanup_pin_groups(struct ptp_clock *ptp); +void ptp_vclock_remove_sysfs(struct ptp_clock *ptp); struct ptp_vclock *ptp_vclock_register(struct ptp_clock *pclock); void ptp_vclock_unregister(struct ptp_vclock *vclock);
diff --git a/drivers/ptp/ptp_sysfs.c b/drivers/ptp/ptp_sysfs.c
index dc398c6b7528..53388b123198 100644
--- a/drivers/ptp/ptp_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/ptp/ptp_sysfs.c@@ -263,6 +263,12 @@ static ssize_t n_vclocks_store(struct device *dev, } static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(n_vclocks); +void ptp_vclock_remove_sysfs(struct ptp_clock *ptp) +{ + if (!ptp->is_virtual_clock) + device_remove_file(&ptp->dev, &dev_attr_n_vclocks); +} + static ssize_t max_vclocks_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *page) {
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