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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2024-02-14 09:48:28 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2024-02-17 16:20:41 +0100
commit2444a80c1cc2c4240f60f2162abef3797c1803de (patch)
tree2a977ffce3acb403fba8704d50edacb7681dcf3e
parentworkqueue: make wq_subsys const (diff)
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kobject: make uevent_seqnum atomic
We will soon no longer acquire uevent_sock_mutex for most kobject_uevent_net_broadcast() calls, and also while calling uevent_net_broadcast(). Make uevent_seqnum an atomic64_t to get its own protection. This fixes a race while reading /sys/kernel/uevent_seqnum. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240214084829.684541-2-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kobject.h2
-rw-r--r--kernel/ksysfs.c2
-rw-r--r--lib/kobject_uevent.c17
3 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h
index c30affcc43b4..c8219505a79f 100644
--- a/include/linux/kobject.h
+++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ extern char uevent_helper[];
#endif
/* counter to tag the uevent, read only except for the kobject core */
-extern u64 uevent_seqnum;
+extern atomic64_t uevent_seqnum;
/*
* The actions here must match the index to the string array
diff --git a/kernel/ksysfs.c b/kernel/ksysfs.c
index 1d4bc493b2f4..32ae7fa74a9c 100644
--- a/kernel/ksysfs.c
+++ b/kernel/ksysfs.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static struct kobj_attribute _name##_attr = __ATTR_RW(_name)
static ssize_t uevent_seqnum_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
- return sysfs_emit(buf, "%llu\n", (unsigned long long)uevent_seqnum);
+ return sysfs_emit(buf, "%llu\n", (u64)atomic64_read(&uevent_seqnum));
}
KERNEL_ATTR_RO(uevent_seqnum);
diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
index fb9a2f06dd1e..9cb1a7fdaeba 100644
--- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c
+++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
#include <net/net_namespace.h>
-u64 uevent_seqnum;
+atomic64_t uevent_seqnum;
#ifdef CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER
char uevent_helper[UEVENT_HELPER_PATH_LEN] = CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH;
#endif
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ struct uevent_sock {
static LIST_HEAD(uevent_sock_list);
#endif
-/* This lock protects uevent_seqnum and uevent_sock_list */
+/* This lock protects uevent_sock_list */
static DEFINE_MUTEX(uevent_sock_mutex);
/* the strings here must match the enum in include/linux/kobject.h */
@@ -583,13 +583,13 @@ int kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action,
break;
}
- mutex_lock(&uevent_sock_mutex);
/* we will send an event, so request a new sequence number */
- retval = add_uevent_var(env, "SEQNUM=%llu", ++uevent_seqnum);
- if (retval) {
- mutex_unlock(&uevent_sock_mutex);
+ retval = add_uevent_var(env, "SEQNUM=%llu",
+ atomic64_inc_return(&uevent_seqnum));
+ if (retval)
goto exit;
- }
+
+ mutex_lock(&uevent_sock_mutex);
retval = kobject_uevent_net_broadcast(kobj, env, action_string,
devpath);
mutex_unlock(&uevent_sock_mutex);
@@ -688,7 +688,8 @@ static int uevent_net_broadcast(struct sock *usk, struct sk_buff *skb,
int ret;
/* bump and prepare sequence number */
- ret = snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "SEQNUM=%llu", ++uevent_seqnum);
+ ret = snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "SEQNUM=%llu",
+ atomic64_inc_return(&uevent_seqnum));
if (ret < 0 || (size_t)ret >= sizeof(buf))
return -ENOMEM;
ret++;