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authorJason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>2016-02-12 20:29:53 -0700
committerJarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>2016-06-25 17:26:35 +0300
commit4e26195f240d73150e8308ae42874702e3df8d2c (patch)
treec0e8ff3604b09484393d10a927ed1e9a46a7ed0d /README
parent3635e2ec7cbb9aa054f8d4361dec27b0ca625905 (diff)
tpm: Provide strong locking for device removal
Add a read/write semaphore around the ops function pointers so ops can be set to null when the driver un-registers. Previously the tpm core expected module locking to be enough to ensure that tpm_unregister could not be called during certain times, however that hasn't been sufficient for a long time. Introduce a read/write semaphore around 'ops' so the core can set it to null when unregistering. This provides a strong fence around the driver callbacks, guaranteeing to the driver that no callbacks are running or will run again. For now the ops_lock is placed very high in the call stack, it could be pushed down and made more granular in future if necessary. Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
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