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author | Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> | 2016-05-24 13:08:54 +0200 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-06-15 13:56:35 +0200 |
commit | 75f0b68b75dabb3ff551440163fd67b3fc62901a (patch) | |
tree | 244a5ab2bfd5823bcfd9bbe15c3dff3c8491588c /Documentation/serial | |
parent | debugfs: full_proxy_open(): free proxy on ->open() failure (diff) | |
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debugfs: open_proxy_open(): avoid double fops release
Debugfs' open_proxy_open(), the ->open() installed at all inodes created
through debugfs_create_file_unsafe(),
- grabs a reference to the original file_operations instance passed to
debugfs_create_file_unsafe() via fops_get(),
- installs it at the file's ->f_op by means of replace_fops()
- and calls fops_put() on it.
Since the semantics of replace_fops() are such that the reference's
ownership is transferred, the subsequent fops_put() will result in a double
release when the file is eventually closed.
Currently, this is not an issue since fops_put() basically does a
module_put() on the file_operations' ->owner only and there don't exist any
modules calling debugfs_create_file_unsafe() yet. This is expected to
change in the future though, c.f. commit c64688081490 ("debugfs: add
support for self-protecting attribute file fops").
Remove the call to fops_put() from open_proxy_open().
Fixes: 9fd4dcece43a ("debugfs: prevent access to possibly dead
file_operations at file open")
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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