ACPI / hotplug: Fix potential race in acpi_bus_notify()

There is a slight possibility for the ACPI device object pointed to
by adev in acpi_hotplug_notify_cb() to become invalid between the
acpi_bus_get_device() that it comes from and the subsequent dereference
of that pointer under get_device().  Namely, if acpi_scan_drop_device()
runs in parallel with acpi_hotplug_notify_cb(), acpi_device_del_work_fn()
queued up by it may delete the device object in question right after
a successful execution of acpi_bus_get_device() in acpi_bus_notify().

An analogous problem is present in acpi_bus_notify() where the device
pointer coming from acpi_bus_get_device() may become invalid before
it subsequent dereference in the "if" block.

To prevent that from happening, introduce a new function,
acpi_bus_get_acpi_device(), working analogously to acpi_bus_get_device()
except that it will grab a reference to the ACPI device object returned
by it and it will do that under the ACPICA's namespace mutex.  Then,
make both acpi_hotplug_notify_cb() and acpi_bus_notify() use
acpi_bus_get_acpi_device() instead of acpi_bus_get_device() so as to
ensure that the pointers used by them will not become stale at one
point.

In addition to that, introduce acpi_bus_put_acpi_device() as a wrapper
around put_device() to be used along with acpi_bus_get_acpi_device()
and make the (new) users of the latter use acpi_bus_put_acpi_device()
too.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Tested-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h b/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h
index 8256eb4..94fd61a 100644
--- a/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h
+++ b/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h
@@ -381,6 +381,8 @@ extern int unregister_acpi_notifier(struct notifier_block *);
  */
 
 int acpi_bus_get_device(acpi_handle handle, struct acpi_device **device);
+struct acpi_device *acpi_bus_get_acpi_device(acpi_handle handle);
+void acpi_bus_put_acpi_device(struct acpi_device *adev);
 acpi_status acpi_bus_get_status_handle(acpi_handle handle,
 				       unsigned long long *sta);
 int acpi_bus_get_status(struct acpi_device *device);