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Tsirkin" , Jason Wang , Alex Williamson Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux.dev, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kevin Tian , Oliver Upton , David Matlack , Like Xu , Binbin Wu , Yong He Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Drop irqbypass.ko's superfluous and misleading get/put calls on THIS_MODULE. A module taking a reference to itself is useless; no amount of checks will prevent doom and destruction if the caller hasn't already guaranteed the liveliness of the module (this goes for any module). E.g. if try_module_get() fails because irqbypass.ko is being unloaded, then the kernel has already hit a use-after-free by virtue of executing code whose lifecycle is tied to irqbypass.ko. Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson --- virt/lib/irqbypass.c | 20 -------------------- 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/virt/lib/irqbypass.c b/virt/lib/irqbypass.c index 28fda42e471b..080c706f3b01 100644 --- a/virt/lib/irqbypass.c +++ b/virt/lib/irqbypass.c @@ -92,9 +92,6 @@ int irq_bypass_register_producer(struct irq_bypass_produc= er *producer) =20 might_sleep(); =20 - if (!try_module_get(THIS_MODULE)) - return -ENODEV; - mutex_lock(&lock); =20 list_for_each_entry(tmp, &producers, node) { @@ -120,7 +117,6 @@ int irq_bypass_register_producer(struct irq_bypass_prod= ucer *producer) return 0; out_err: mutex_unlock(&lock); - module_put(THIS_MODULE); return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(irq_bypass_register_producer); @@ -142,9 +138,6 @@ void irq_bypass_unregister_producer(struct irq_bypass_p= roducer *producer) =20 might_sleep(); =20 - if (!try_module_get(THIS_MODULE)) - return; /* nothing in the list anyway */ - mutex_lock(&lock); =20 list_for_each_entry(tmp, &producers, node) { @@ -159,13 +152,10 @@ void irq_bypass_unregister_producer(struct irq_bypass= _producer *producer) } =20 list_del(&producer->node); - module_put(THIS_MODULE); break; } =20 mutex_unlock(&lock); - - module_put(THIS_MODULE); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(irq_bypass_unregister_producer); =20 @@ -188,9 +178,6 @@ int irq_bypass_register_consumer(struct irq_bypass_cons= umer *consumer) =20 might_sleep(); =20 - if (!try_module_get(THIS_MODULE)) - return -ENODEV; - mutex_lock(&lock); =20 list_for_each_entry(tmp, &consumers, node) { @@ -216,7 +203,6 @@ int irq_bypass_register_consumer(struct irq_bypass_cons= umer *consumer) return 0; out_err: mutex_unlock(&lock); - module_put(THIS_MODULE); return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(irq_bypass_register_consumer); @@ -238,9 +224,6 @@ void irq_bypass_unregister_consumer(struct irq_bypass_c= onsumer *consumer) =20 might_sleep(); =20 - if (!try_module_get(THIS_MODULE)) - return; /* nothing in the list anyway */ - mutex_lock(&lock); =20 list_for_each_entry(tmp, &consumers, node) { @@ -255,12 +238,9 @@ void irq_bypass_unregister_consumer(struct irq_bypass_= consumer *consumer) } =20 list_del(&consumer->node); - module_put(THIS_MODULE); break; } =20 mutex_unlock(&lock); - - module_put(THIS_MODULE); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(irq_bypass_unregister_consumer); --=20 2.49.0.1112.g889b7c5bd8-goog