Currently, misc_deregister() uses list_del() to remove the device
from the list. After list_del(), the list pointers are set to
LIST_POISON1 and LIST_POISON2, which may help catch use-after-free bugs,
but does not reset the list head.
If misc_deregister() is called more than once on the same device,
list_empty() will not return true, and list_del() may be called again,
leading to undefined behavior.
Replace list_del() with list_del_init() to reinitialize the list head
after deletion. This makes the code more robust against double
deregistration and allows safe usage of list_empty() on the miscdevice
after deregistration.
[ Note, this seems to keep broken out-of-tree drivers from doing foolish
things. While this does not matter for any in-kernel drivers,
external drivers could use a bit of help to show them they shouldn't
be doing stuff like re-registering misc devices - gregkh ]
Signed-off-by: Xion Wang <xion.wang@mediatek.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250904063714.28925-2-xion.wang@mediatek.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The WARN_ON(list_empty(&misc->list)) in misc_deregister() does
not catch any practical error conditions:
- For statically allocated miscdevice structures, the list pointers
are zero-initialized, so list_empty() returns false, not true.
- After list_del(), the pointers are set to LIST_POISON1 and LIST_POISON2,
so repeated deregistration also fails to trigger the check.
Signed-off-by: Xion Wang <xion.wang@mediatek.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250827024201.21407-2-xion.wang@mediatek.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
For miscdevice who wants dynamic minor, it may fail to be registered again
without reinitialization after being de-registered, which is illustrated
by kunit test case miscdev_test_dynamic_reentry() newly added.
There is a real case found by cascardo when a part of minor range were
contained by range [0, 255):
1) wmi/dell-smbios registered minor 122, and acpi_thermal_rel registered
minor 123
2) unbind "int3400 thermal" driver from its device, this will de-register
acpi_thermal_rel
3) rmmod then insmod dell_smbios again, now wmi/dell-smbios is using minor
123
4) bind the device to "int3400 thermal" driver again, acpi_thermal_rel
fails to register.
Some drivers may reuse the miscdevice structure after they are deregistered
If the intention is to allocate a dynamic minor, if the minor number is not
reset to MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR before calling misc_register(), it will try to
register a previously dynamically allocated minor number, which may have
been registered by a different driver.
One such case is the acpi_thermal_rel misc device, registered by the
int3400 thermal driver. If the device is unbound from the driver and later
bound, if there was another dynamic misc device registered in between, it
would fail to register the acpi_thermal_rel misc device. Other drivers
behave similarly.
Actually, this kind of issue is prone to happen if APIs
misc_register()/misc_deregister() are invoked by driver's
probe()/remove() separately.
Instead of fixing all the drivers, just reset the minor member to
MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR in misc_deregister() in case it was a dynamically
allocated minor number, as error handling of misc_register() does.
Cc: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu <zijun.hu@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250714-rfc_miscdev-v6-5-2ed949665bde@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Currently, It is allowed to register miscdevice with minor > 255
which is defined by macro MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR, and cause:
- Chaos regarding division and management of minor codes.
- Registering failure if the minor was allocated to other dynamic request.
Fortunately, in-kernel users have not had such usage yet.
Fix by refusing to register miscdevice whose minor > 255.
Also bring in a very simple minor code space division and management:
< 255 : Fixed minor code
== 255 : Indicator to request dynamic minor code
> 255 : Dynamic minor code requested, 1048320 minor codes totally
And all fixed minors allocated should be registered in 'linux/miscdevice.h'
Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu <zijun.hu@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250714-rfc_miscdev-v6-3-2ed949665bde@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
When this was first reported [1], the possibility of having sufficient
number of dynamic misc devices was theoretical, in the case of dlm driver.
In practice, its userspace never created more than one device.
What we know from commit ab760791c0 ("char: misc: Increase the maximum
number of dynamic misc devices to 1048448"), is that the miscdevice
interface has been used for allocating more than the single-shot devices it
was designed for. And it is not only coresight_tmc, but many other drivers
are able to create multiple devices.
On systems like the ones described in the above commit, it is certain that
the dynamic allocation will allocate certain reserved minor numbers,
leading to failures when a later driver tries to claim its reserved number.
Instead of excluding the historically statically allocated range from
dynamic allocation, restrict the latter to minors above 255. That also
removes the need for DYNAMIC_MINORS and the convolution in allocating minor
numbers, simplifying the code.
Since commit ab760791c0 ("char: misc: Increase the maximum number of
dynamic misc devices to 1048448") has been applied, such range is already
possible. And given such devices already need to be dynamically created,
there should be no systems where this might become a problem.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/1257813017-28598-3-git-send-email-cascardo@holoscopio.com/
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@igalia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250423-misc-dynrange-v4-1-133b5ae4ca18@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
register_chrdev will only register the first 256 minors of a major chrdev.
That means that dynamically allocated misc devices with minor above 255
will fail to open with -ENXIO.
This was found by kernel test robot when testing a different change that
makes all dynamically allocated minors be above 255. This has, however,
been separately tested by creating 256 serio_raw devices with the help of
userio driver.
Ever since allowing misc devices with minors above 128, this has been
possible.
Fix it by registering all minor numbers from 0 to MINORMASK + 1 for
MISC_MAJOR.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202503171507.6c8093d0-lkp@intel.com
Fixes: ab760791c0 ("char: misc: Increase the maximum number of dynamic misc devices to 1048448")
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@igalia.com>
Tested-by: Hou Wenlong <houwenlong.hwl@antgroup.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250317-misc-chrdev-v1-1-6cd05da11aef@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
misc_minor_alloc was allocating id using ida for minor only in case of
MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR but misc_minor_free was always freeing ids
using ida_free causing a mismatch and following warn:
> > WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 159 at lib/idr.c:525 ida_free+0x3e0/0x41f
> > ida_free called for id=127 which is not allocated.
> > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
...
> > [<60941eb4>] ida_free+0x3e0/0x41f
> > [<605ac993>] misc_minor_free+0x3e/0xbc
> > [<605acb82>] misc_deregister+0x171/0x1b3
misc_minor_alloc is changed to allocate id from ida for all minors
falling in the range of dynamic/ misc dynamic minors
Fixes: ab760791c0 ("char: misc: Increase the maximum number of dynamic misc devices to 1048448")
Signed-off-by: Vimal Agrawal <vimal.agrawal@sophos.com>
Reviewed-by: Dirk VanDerMerwe <dirk.vandermerwe@sophos.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241021133812.23703-1-vimal.agrawal@sophos.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the set of driver core and kernfs changes for 6.2-rc1.
The "big" change in here is the addition of a new macro,
container_of_const() that will preserve the "const-ness" of a pointer
passed into it.
The "problem" of the current container_of() macro is that if you pass
in a "const *", out of it can comes a non-const pointer unless you
specifically ask for it. For many usages, we want to preserve the
"const" attribute by using the same call. For a specific example, this
series changes the kobj_to_dev() macro to use it, allowing it to be
used no matter what the const value is. This prevents every subsystem
from having to declare 2 different individual macros (i.e.
kobj_const_to_dev() and kobj_to_dev()) and having the compiler enforce
the const value at build time, which having 2 macros would not do
either.
The driver for all of this have been discussions with the Rust kernel
developers as to how to properly mark driver core, and kobject,
objects as being "non-mutable". The changes to the kobject and driver
core in this pull request are the result of that, as there are lots of
paths where kobjects and device pointers are not modified at all, so
marking them as "const" allows the compiler to enforce this.
So, a nice side affect of the Rust development effort has been already
to clean up the driver core code to be more obvious about object
rules.
All of this has been bike-shedded in quite a lot of detail on lkml
with different names and implementations resulting in the tiny version
we have in here, much better than my original proposal. Lots of
subsystem maintainers have acked the changes as well.
Other than this change, included in here are smaller stuff like:
- kernfs fixes and updates to handle lock contention better
- vmlinux.lds.h fixes and updates
- sysfs and debugfs documentation updates
- device property updates
All of these have been in the linux-next tree for quite a while with
no problems"
* tag 'driver-core-6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (58 commits)
device property: Fix documentation for fwnode_get_next_parent()
firmware_loader: fix up to_fw_sysfs() to preserve const
usb.h: take advantage of container_of_const()
device.h: move kobj_to_dev() to use container_of_const()
container_of: add container_of_const() that preserves const-ness of the pointer
driver core: fix up missed drivers/s390/char/hmcdrv_dev.c class.devnode() conversion.
driver core: fix up missed scsi/cxlflash class.devnode() conversion.
driver core: fix up some missing class.devnode() conversions.
driver core: make struct class.devnode() take a const *
driver core: make struct class.dev_uevent() take a const *
cacheinfo: Remove of_node_put() for fw_token
device property: Add a blank line in Kconfig of tests
device property: Rename goto label to be more precise
device property: Move PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL() a bit down
device property: Get rid of __PROPERTY_ENTRY_ARRAY_EL*SIZE*()
kernfs: fix all kernel-doc warnings and multiple typos
driver core: pass a const * into of_device_uevent()
kobject: kset_uevent_ops: make name() callback take a const *
kobject: kset_uevent_ops: make filter() callback take a const *
kobject: make kobject_namespace take a const *
...
On AmpereOne, 128 dynamic misc devices is not enough for the per-cpu
coresight_tmc devices. Switch the dynamic minors allocator to an ida and
add logic to allocate in the ranges [0..127] and [256..1048575], leaving
[128..255] for static misc devices. Dynamic allocations start from 127
growing downwards and then increasing from 256, so device numbering for the
first 128 devices remain the same as before.
Signed-off-by: D Scott Phillips <scott@os.amperecomputing.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221114212212.9279-1-scott@os.amperecomputing.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
According to checkpatch: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its
function/variable.
This patch fixes the following checkpatch.pl issues in drivers/char/misc.c:
WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable
Signed-off-by: Naveen Kumar Parna <parna.naveenkumar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Variants of proc_create{,_data} that directly take a struct seq_operations
argument and drastically reduces the boilerplate code in the callers.
All trivial callers converted over.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.
Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.
How this work was done:
Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,
Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.
The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.
The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).
All documentation files were explicitly excluded.
The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.
- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.
For non */uapi/* files that summary was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139
and resulted in the first patch in this series.
If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930
and resulted in the second patch in this series.
- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1
and that resulted in the third patch in this series.
- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).
- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.
- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).
- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.
In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.
Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.
In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.
Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct
This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.
These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add space which is required after ',' to follow linux coding style. This
patch fixes the checkpatch issue.
Signed-off-by: Varsha Rao <rvarsha016@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
