Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho wrote:
> This patch fixes a possible race that leads to double freeing an idr index.
>
> Without the patch, on some machines it's possible get easily idr warnings like
> this one:
> idr_remove called for id=15 which is not allocated.
> [<c02555b9>] idr_remove+0x139/0x170
> [<c02a1b62>] release_mem+0x182/0x230
> [<c02a28e7>] release_dev+0x4b7/0x700
> [<c02a0ea7>] tty_ldisc_enable+0x27/0x30
> [<c02a1e64>] init_dev+0x254/0x580
> [<c02a0d64>] check_tty_count+0x14/0xb0
> [<c02a4f05>] tty_open+0x1c5/0x340
> [<c02a4d40>] tty_open+0x0/0x340
> [<c017388f>] chrdev_open+0xaf/0x180
> [<c017c2ac>] open_namei+0x8c/0x760
> [<c01737e0>] chrdev_open+0x0/0x180
> [<c0167bc9>] __dentry_open+0xc9/0x210
> [<c0167e2c>] do_filp_open+0x5c/0x70
> [<c0167a91>] get_unused_fd+0x61/0xd0
> [<c0167e93>] do_sys_open+0x53/0x100
> [<c0167f97>] sys_open+0x27/0x30
> [<c010303b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Would another possible trace look like this?
idr_remove called for id=1 which is not allocated.
[<c0403f10>] dump_trace+0x69/0x1af
[<c040406e>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x18/0x2c
[<c04045e9>] show_trace+0xf/0x11
[<c0404673>] dump_stack+0x15/0x17
[<c04d3fcb>] idr_remove+0xe2/0x143
[<c051ee50>] release_dev+0x63b/0x652
[<c051ee6e>] tty_release+0x7/0xa
[<c0461b2e>] __fput+0xba/0x178
[<c045f466>] filp_close+0x52/0x59
[<c041d3b4>] put_files_struct+0x64/0xa6
[<c041e3fe>] do_exit+0x248/0x747
[<c041e973>] sys_exit_group+0x0/0xd
[<f5d480e4>] 0xf5d480e4
DWARF2 unwinder stuck at 0xf5d480e4
Leftover inexact backtrace:
[<c0426b76>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x38a/0x3b2
[<c040243a>] do_notify_resume+0x75/0x62f
[<c044bfc0>] __pagevec_lru_add_active+0x95/0xa0
[<c042c814>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x35
[<c05fc113>] _spin_unlock_irq+0x5/0x7
[<c05fa9cf>] schedule+0x529/0x585
[<c0402e2a>] work_notifysig+0x13/0x19
We have some bug reports:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211429
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227203
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