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Like other buses, devices on the netdevsim bus have a release callback
that is invoked when the reference count of the device drops to zero.
However, unlike other buses such as PCI, the release callback is not
necessarily built into the kernel, as netdevsim can be built as a
module.
The above is problematic as nothing prevents the module from being
unloaded before the release callback has been invoked, which can happen
asynchronously. One such example can be found in commit a380687200e0
("devlink: take device reference for devlink object") where devlink
calls put_device() from an RCU callback.
The issue is not theoretical and the reproducer in [1] can reliably
crash the kernel. The conclusion of this discussion was that the issue
should be solved in netdevsim, which is what this patch is trying to do.
Add a reference count that is increased when a device is added to the
bus and decreased when a device is released. Signal a completion when
the reference count drops to zero and wait for the completion when
unloading the module so that the module will not be unloaded before all
the devices were released. The reference count is initialized to one so
that completion is only signaled when unloading the module.
With this patch, the reproducer in [1] no longer crashes the kernel.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230619125015.1541143-2-idosch@nvidia.com/
Fixes: a380687200e0 ("devlink: take device reference for devlink object")
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231026083343.890689-1-idosch@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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