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Logan Gunthorpe 233ed09d7f chardev: add helper function to register char devs with a struct device 
Credit for this patch goes is shared with Dan Williams [1]. I've
taken things one step further to make the helper function more
useful and clean up calling code.

There's a common pattern in the kernel whereby a struct cdev is placed
in a structure along side a struct device which manages the life-cycle
of both. In the naive approach, the reference counting is broken and
the struct device can free everything before the chardev code
is entirely released.

Many developers have solved this problem by linking the internal kobjs
in this fashion:

cdev.kobj.parent = &parent_dev.kobj;

The cdev code explicitly gets and puts a reference to it's kobj parent.
So this seems like it was intended to be used this way. Dmitrty Torokhov
first put this in place in 2012 with this commit:

2f0157f char_dev: pin parent kobject

and the first instance of the fix was then done in the input subsystem
in the following commit:

4a215aa Input: fix use-after-free introduced with dynamic minor changes

Subsequently over the years, however, this issue seems to have tripped
up multiple developers independently. For example, see these commits:

0d5b7da iio: Prevent race between IIO chardev opening and IIO device
(by Lars-Peter Clausen in 2013)

ba0ef85 tpm: Fix initialization of the cdev
(by Jason Gunthorpe in 2015)

5b28dde [media] media: fix use-after-free in cdev_put() when app exits
after driver unbind
(by Shauh Khan in 2016)

This technique is similarly done in at least 15 places within the kernel
and probably should have been done so in another, at least, 5 places.
The kobj line also looks very suspect in that one would not expect
drivers to have to mess with kobject internals in this way.
Even highly experienced kernel developers can be surprised by this
code, as seen in [2].

To help alleviate this situation, and hopefully prevent future
wasted effort on this problem, this patch introduces a helper function
to register a char device along with its parent struct device.
This creates a more regular API for tying a char device to its parent
without the developer having to set members in the underlying kobject.

This patch introduce cdev_device_add and cdev_device_del which
replaces a common pattern including setting the kobj parent, calling
cdev_add and then calling device_add. It also introduces cdev_set_parent
for the few cases that set the kobject parent without using device_add.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/13/700
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/10/370

Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
 		2017-03-21 06:44:32 +01:00
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9p Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 21:44:35 -08:00
adfs
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affs sched/headers: Prepare to remove <linux/cred.h> inclusion from <linux/sched.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:31 +01:00
afs Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
autofs4 sched/headers: Prepare to remove <linux/cred.h> inclusion from <linux/sched.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:31 +01:00
befs sched/headers: Prepare to remove <linux/cred.h> inclusion from <linux/sched.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:31 +01:00
bfs Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
btrfs Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
cachefiles sched/headers: Prepare to remove <linux/cred.h> inclusion from <linux/sched.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:31 +01:00
ceph Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
cifs Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6 2017-03-03 16:00:59 -08:00
coda Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
configfs Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
cramfs
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crypto KEYS: Differentiate uses of rcu_dereference_key() and user_key_payload() 2017-03-02 10:09:00 +11:00
debugfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2017-02-23 20:33:51 -08:00
devpts
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dlm sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup & sigpending methods from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:32 +01:00
ecryptfs Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
efivarfs
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efs Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
exofs locking/atomic, kref: Add kref_read() 2017-01-14 11:37:18 +01:00
exportfs Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
ext2 sched/headers: Prepare to remove <linux/cred.h> inclusion from <linux/sched.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:31 +01:00
ext4 Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
f2fs Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
fat fat: fix using uninitialized fields of fat_inode/fsinfo_inode 2017-03-09 17:01:10 -08:00
freevxfs
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fscache KEYS: Differentiate uses of rcu_dereference_key() and user_key_payload() 2017-03-02 10:09:00 +11:00
fuse Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse 2017-03-03 12:14:13 -08:00
gfs2 Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
hfs Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 21:44:35 -08:00
hfsplus sched/headers: Prepare to remove <linux/cred.h> inclusion from <linux/sched.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:31 +01:00
hostfs vfs: remove ".readlink = generic_readlink" assignments 2016-12-09 16:45:04 +01:00
hpfs sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup & sigpending methods from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:32 +01:00
hugetlbfs sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup & sigpending methods from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:32 +01:00
isofs sched/headers: Prepare to remove <linux/cred.h> inclusion from <linux/sched.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:31 +01:00
jbd2 For this cycle we add support for the shutdown ioctl, which is 2017-02-20 18:24:39 -08:00
jffs2 sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup & sigpending methods from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:32 +01:00
jfs fs: add i_blocksize() 2017-02-27 18:43:46 -08:00
kernfs Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
lockd sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:29 +01:00
minix statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available 2017-03-02 20:51:15 -05:00
ncpfs Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
nfs Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
nfs_common netns: make struct pernet_operations::id unsigned int 2016-11-18 10:59:15 -05:00
nfsd Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
nilfs2 sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup & sigpending methods from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:32 +01:00
nls
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notify sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup & sigpending methods from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:32 +01:00
ntfs sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup & sigpending methods from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:32 +01:00
ocfs2 Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
omfs sched/headers: Prepare to remove <linux/cred.h> inclusion from <linux/sched.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:31 +01:00
openpromfs Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
orangefs Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
overlayfs overlayfs: remove now unnecessary header file include 2017-03-08 10:42:13 -08:00
proc Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
pstore fs/pstore: fs/squashfs: change usage of LZ4 to work with new LZ4 version 2017-02-24 17:46:57 -08:00
qnx4
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qnx6
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quota sched/headers: Prepare to remove <linux/cred.h> inclusion from <linux/sched.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:31 +01:00
ramfs Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
reiserfs fs: add i_blocksize() 2017-02-27 18:43:46 -08:00
romfs romfs: use different way to generate fsid for BLOCK or MTD 2017-01-24 16:26:14 -08:00
squashfs fs/pstore: fs/squashfs: change usage of LZ4 to work with new LZ4 version 2017-02-24 17:46:57 -08:00
sysfs
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sysv statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available 2017-03-02 20:51:15 -05:00
tracefs
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ubifs statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available 2017-03-02 20:51:15 -05:00
udf statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available 2017-03-02 20:51:15 -05:00
ufs Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
xfs xfs: try any AG when allocating the first btree block when reflinking 2017-03-08 10:38:53 -08:00
Kconfig dax: fix build warnings with FS_DAX and !FS_IOMAP 2017-01-24 16:26:14 -08:00
Kconfig.binfmt
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Makefile logfs: remove from tree 2016-12-14 23:48:11 -05:00
aio.c Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
anon_inodes.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
attr.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:29 +01:00
bad_inode.c statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available 2017-03-02 20:51:15 -05:00
binfmt_aout.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task_stack.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:36 +01:00
binfmt_elf.c sched/headers: Prepare to move cputime functionality from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/cputime.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:39 +01:00
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c sched/headers: Prepare to move cputime functionality from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/cputime.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:39 +01:00
binfmt_em86.c
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binfmt_flat.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task_stack.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:36 +01:00
binfmt_misc.c sched/headers: Prepare to remove the <linux/mm_types.h> dependency from <linux/sched.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:37 +01:00
binfmt_script.c
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block_dev.c block: Initialize bd_bdi on inode initialization 2017-03-02 08:56:59 -07:00
buffer.c sched/headers: Prepare for the reduction of <linux/sched.h>'s signal API dependency 2017-03-02 08:42:37 +01:00
char_dev.c chardev: add helper function to register char devs with a struct device 2017-03-21 06:44:32 +01:00
compat.c sched/headers: Prepare to remove <linux/cred.h> inclusion from <linux/sched.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:31 +01:00
compat_binfmt_elf.c fs/binfmt: Convert obsolete cputime type to nsecs 2017-02-01 09:13:51 +01:00
compat_ioctl.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
coredump.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task_stack.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:36 +01:00
dax.c sched/headers: Prepare for the reduction of <linux/sched.h>'s signal API dependency 2017-03-02 08:42:37 +01:00
dcache.c mnt: Protect the mountpoint hashtable with mount_lock 2017-01-10 13:34:43 +13:00
dcookies.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
direct-io.c fs: add i_blocksize() 2017-02-27 18:43:46 -08:00
drop_caches.c
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eventfd.c sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup & sigpending methods from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:32 +01:00
eventpoll.c sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup & sigpending methods from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:32 +01:00
exec.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:35 +01:00
fcntl.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:35 +01:00
fhandle.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
file.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:29 +01:00
file_table.c sched/headers: Prepare to remove <linux/cred.h> inclusion from <linux/sched.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:31 +01:00
filesystems.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
fs-writeback.c fs/fs-writeback.c: remove redundant if check 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
fs_pin.c
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fs_struct.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:35 +01:00
inode.c
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internal.h iomap: constify struct iomap_ops 2017-01-30 16:32:25 -08:00
ioctl.c sched/headers: Prepare for the reduction of <linux/sched.h>'s signal API dependency 2017-03-02 08:42:37 +01:00
iomap.c iomap: invalidate page caches should be after iomap_dio_complete() in direct write 2017-03-06 09:50:01 -08:00
libfs.c Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
locks.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
mbcache.c mbcache: document that "find" functions only return reusable entries 2016-12-03 15:55:01 -05:00
mount.h mnt: Tuck mounts under others instead of creating shadow/side mounts. 2017-02-04 00:01:06 +13:00
mpage.c fs: add i_blocksize() 2017-02-27 18:43:46 -08:00
namei.c Merge remote-tracking branch 'ovl/for-viro' into for-linus 2017-03-02 06:41:22 -05:00
namespace.c sched/headers: Prepare to move 'init_task' and 'init_thread_union' from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:38 +01:00
no-block.c
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nsfs.c nsfs: Add an ioctl() to return owner UID of a userns 2017-02-03 14:35:43 +13:00
open.c vfs: wrap write f_ops with file_{start,end}_write() 2017-02-07 15:05:04 +01:00
pipe.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
pnode.c mnt: Tuck mounts under others instead of creating shadow/side mounts. 2017-02-04 00:01:06 +13:00
pnode.h mnt: Tuck mounts under others instead of creating shadow/side mounts. 2017-02-04 00:01:06 +13:00
posix_acl.c sched/headers: Prepare to remove <linux/cred.h> inclusion from <linux/sched.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:31 +01:00
proc_namespace.c sched/headers: Prepare to move the task_lock()/unlock() APIs to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:38 +01:00
read_write.c Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
readdir.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
select.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:29 +01:00
seq_file.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
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splice.c Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
stack.c
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stat.c Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
statfs.c vfs: misc struct path constification 2016-12-05 19:03:49 -05:00
super.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2017-02-23 20:33:51 -08:00
sync.c vfs: use helper for calling f_op->fsync() 2017-02-20 16:51:23 +01:00
timerfd.c timerfd: Only check CAP_WAKE_ALARM when it is needed 2017-03-01 12:53:44 +01:00
userfaultfd.c Merge branch 'prep-for-5level' 2017-03-10 08:59:07 -08:00
utimes.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
xattr.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00