FAILED: patch "[PATCH] can: bcm: delay release of struct bcm_op after" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From d5f9023fa61ee8b94f37a93f08e94b136cf1e463 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 13:18:13 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] can: bcm: delay release of struct bcm_op after
synchronize_rcu()

can_rx_register() callbacks may be called concurrently to the call to can_rx_unregister(). The callbacks and callback data, though, are protected by RCU and the struct sock reference count.

So the callback data is really attached to the life of sk, meaning that it should be released on sk_destruct. However, bcm_remove_op() calls tasklet_kill(), and RCU callbacks may be called under RCU softirq, so that cannot be used on kernels before the introduction of HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT.

However, bcm_rx_handler() is called under RCU protection, so after calling can_rx_unregister(), we may call synchronize_rcu() in order to wait for any RCU read-side critical sections to finish. That is, bcm_rx_handler() won't be called anymore for those ops. So, we only free them, after we do that synchronize_rcu().

index f3e4d9528fa3..0928a39c4423 100644
@@ -785,6 +785,7 @@ static int bcm_delete_rx_op(struct list_head *ops, struct bcm_msg_head *mh,
 						  bcm_rx_handler, op);
 
 			list_del(&op->list);
+			synchronize_rcu();
 			bcm_remove_op(op);
 			return 1; /* done */
 		}

@@ -1533,9 +1534,13 @@ static int bcm_release(struct socket *sock)
 					  REGMASK(op->can_id),
 					  bcm_rx_handler, op);
 
-		bcm_remove_op(op);
 	}
 
+	synchronize_rcu();
+
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(op, next, &bo->rx_ops, list)
+		bcm_remove_op(op);
+
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PROC_FS)
 	/* remove procfs entry */
 	if (net->can.bcmproc_dir && bo->bcm_proc_read)