rust: driver: drop device private data post unbind

Currently, the driver's device private data is allocated and initialized
from driver core code called from bus abstractions after the driver's
probe() callback returned the corresponding initializer.

Similarly, the driver's device private data is dropped within the
remove() callback of bus abstractions after calling the remove()
callback of the corresponding driver.

However, commit 6f61a2637a ("rust: device: introduce
Device::drvdata()") introduced an accessor for the driver's device
private data for a Device<Bound>, i.e. a device that is currently bound
to a driver.

Obviously, this is in conflict with dropping the driver's device private
data in remove(), since a device can not be considered to be fully
unbound after remove() has finished:

We also have to consider registrations guarded by devres - such as IRQ
or class device registrations - which are torn down after remove() in
devres_release_all().

Thus, it can happen that, for instance, a class device or IRQ callback
still calls Device::drvdata(), which then runs concurrently to remove()
(which sets dev->driver_data to NULL and drops the driver's device
private data), before devres_release_all() started to tear down the
corresponding registration. This is because devres guarded registrations
can, as expected, access the corresponding Device<Bound> that defines
their scope.

In C it simply is the driver's responsibility to ensure that its device
private data is freed after e.g. an IRQ registration is unregistered.

Typically, C drivers achieve this by allocating their device private data
with e.g. devm_kzalloc() before doing anything else, i.e. before e.g.
registering an IRQ with devm_request_threaded_irq(), relying on the
reverse order cleanup of devres.

Technically, we could do something similar in Rust. However, the
resulting code would be pretty messy:

In Rust we have to differentiate between allocated but uninitialized
memory and initialized memory in the type system. Thus, we would need to
somehow keep track of whether the driver's device private data object
has been initialized (i.e. probe() was successful and returned a valid
initializer for this memory) and conditionally call the destructor of
the corresponding object when it is freed.

This is because we'd need to allocate and register the memory of the
driver's device private data *before* it is initialized by the
initializer returned by the driver's probe() callback, because the
driver could already register devres guarded registrations within
probe() outside of the driver's device private data initializer.

Luckily there is a much simpler solution: Instead of dropping the
driver's device private data at the end of remove(), we just drop it
after the device has been fully unbound, i.e. after all devres callbacks
have been processed.

For this, we introduce a new post_unbind() callback private to the
driver-core, i.e. the callback is neither exposed to drivers, nor to bus
abstractions.

This way, the driver-core code can simply continue to conditionally
allocate the memory for the driver's device private data when the
driver's initializer is returned from probe() - no change needed - and
drop it when the driver-core code receives the post_unbind() callback.

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/DEZMS6Y4A7XE.XE7EUBT5SJFJ@kernel.org/
Fixes: 6f61a2637a ("rust: device: introduce Device::drvdata()")
Acked-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Igor Korotin <igor.korotin.linux@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260107103511.570525-7-dakr@kernel.org
[ Remove #ifdef CONFIG_RUST, rename post_unbind() to post_unbind_rust().
 - Danilo]
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>

drivers/base/dd.c

@@ -548,6 +548,8 @@ static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(state_synced);
 static void device_unbind_cleanup(struct device *dev)
 {
 	devres_release_all(dev);
+	if (dev->driver->p_cb.post_unbind_rust)
+		dev->driver->p_cb.post_unbind_rust(dev);
 	arch_teardown_dma_ops(dev);
 	kfree(dev->dma_range_map);
 	dev->dma_range_map = NULL;

include/linux/device/driver.h

@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ enum probe_type {
  *		uevent.
  * @p:		Driver core's private data, no one other than the driver
  *		core can touch this.
+ * @p_cb:	Callbacks private to the driver core; no one other than the
+ *		driver core is allowed to touch this.
  *
  * The device driver-model tracks all of the drivers known to the system.
  * The main reason for this tracking is to enable the driver core to match
@@ -119,6 +121,13 @@ struct device_driver {
 	void (*coredump) (struct device *dev);
 
 	struct driver_private *p;
+	struct {
+		/*
+		 * Called after remove() and after all devres entries have been
+		 * processed. This is a Rust only callback.
+		 */
+		void (*post_unbind_rust)(struct device *dev);
+	} p_cb;
 };
 
 

rust/kernel/auxiliary.rs

@@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ impl<T: Driver + 'static> Adapter<T> {
         // SAFETY: `remove_callback` is only ever called after a successful call to
         // `probe_callback`, hence it's guaranteed that `Device::set_drvdata()` has been called
         // and stored a `Pin<KBox<T>>`.
-        let data = unsafe { adev.as_ref().drvdata_obtain::<T>() };
+        let data = unsafe { adev.as_ref().drvdata_borrow::<T>() };
 
-        T::unbind(adev, data.as_ref());
+        T::unbind(adev, data);
     }
 }
 

rust/kernel/device.rs

@@ -232,30 +232,32 @@ impl Device<CoreInternal> {
     ///
     /// # Safety
     ///
-    /// - Must only be called once after a preceding call to [`Device::set_drvdata`].
     /// - The type `T` must match the type of the `ForeignOwnable` previously stored by
     ///   [`Device::set_drvdata`].
-    pub unsafe fn drvdata_obtain<T: 'static>(&self) -> Pin<KBox<T>> {
+    pub(crate) unsafe fn drvdata_obtain<T: 'static>(&self) -> Option<Pin<KBox<T>>> {
         // SAFETY: By the type invariants, `self.as_raw()` is a valid pointer to a `struct device`.
         let ptr = unsafe { bindings::dev_get_drvdata(self.as_raw()) };
 
         // SAFETY: By the type invariants, `self.as_raw()` is a valid pointer to a `struct device`.
         unsafe { bindings::dev_set_drvdata(self.as_raw(), core::ptr::null_mut()) };
 
+        if ptr.is_null() {
+            return None;
+        }
+
         // SAFETY:
-        // - By the safety requirements of this function, `ptr` comes from a previous call to
-        //   `into_foreign()`.
+        // - If `ptr` is not NULL, it comes from a previous call to `into_foreign()`.
         // - `dev_get_drvdata()` guarantees to return the same pointer given to `dev_set_drvdata()`
         //   in `into_foreign()`.
-        unsafe { Pin::<KBox<T>>::from_foreign(ptr.cast()) }
+        Some(unsafe { Pin::<KBox<T>>::from_foreign(ptr.cast()) })
     }
 
     /// Borrow the driver's private data bound to this [`Device`].
     ///
     /// # Safety
     ///
-    /// - Must only be called after a preceding call to [`Device::set_drvdata`] and before
-    ///   [`Device::drvdata_obtain`].
+    /// - Must only be called after a preceding call to [`Device::set_drvdata`] and before the
+    ///   device is fully unbound.
     /// - The type `T` must match the type of the `ForeignOwnable` previously stored by
     ///   [`Device::set_drvdata`].
     pub unsafe fn drvdata_borrow<T: 'static>(&self) -> Pin<&T> {
@@ -271,7 +273,7 @@ impl Device<Bound> {
     /// # Safety
     ///
     /// - Must only be called after a preceding call to [`Device::set_drvdata`] and before
-    ///   [`Device::drvdata_obtain`].
+    ///   the device is fully unbound.
     /// - The type `T` must match the type of the `ForeignOwnable` previously stored by
     ///   [`Device::set_drvdata`].
     unsafe fn drvdata_unchecked<T: 'static>(&self) -> Pin<&T> {
@@ -320,7 +322,7 @@ impl Device<Bound> {
 
         // SAFETY:
         // - The above check of `dev_get_drvdata()` guarantees that we are called after
-        //   `set_drvdata()` and before `drvdata_obtain()`.
+        //   `set_drvdata()`.
         // - We've just checked that the type of the driver's private data is in fact `T`.
         Ok(unsafe { self.drvdata_unchecked() })
     }

rust/kernel/driver.rs

@@ -177,7 +177,39 @@ unsafe impl<T: RegistrationOps> Sync for Registration<T> {}
 // any thread, so `Registration` is `Send`.
 unsafe impl<T: RegistrationOps> Send for Registration<T> {}
 
-impl<T: RegistrationOps> Registration<T> {
+impl<T: RegistrationOps + 'static> Registration<T> {
+    extern "C" fn post_unbind_callback(dev: *mut bindings::device) {
+        // SAFETY: The driver core only ever calls the post unbind callback with a valid pointer to
+        // a `struct device`.
+        //
+        // INVARIANT: `dev` is valid for the duration of the `post_unbind_callback()`.
+        let dev = unsafe { &*dev.cast::<device::Device<device::CoreInternal>>() };
+
+        // `remove()` and all devres callbacks have been completed at this point, hence drop the
+        // driver's device private data.
+        //
+        // SAFETY: By the safety requirements of the `Driver` trait, `T::DriverData` is the
+        // driver's device private data type.
+        drop(unsafe { dev.drvdata_obtain::<T::DriverData>() });
+    }
+
+    /// Attach generic `struct device_driver` callbacks.
+    fn callbacks_attach(drv: &Opaque<T::DriverType>) {
+        let ptr = drv.get().cast::<u8>();
+
+        // SAFETY:
+        // - `drv.get()` yields a valid pointer to `Self::DriverType`.
+        // - Adding `DEVICE_DRIVER_OFFSET` yields the address of the embedded `struct device_driver`
+        //   as guaranteed by the safety requirements of the `Driver` trait.
+        let base = unsafe { ptr.add(T::DEVICE_DRIVER_OFFSET) };
+
+        // CAST: `base` points to the offset of the embedded `struct device_driver`.
+        let base = base.cast::<bindings::device_driver>();
+
+        // SAFETY: It is safe to set the fields of `struct device_driver` on initialization.
+        unsafe { (*base).p_cb.post_unbind_rust = Some(Self::post_unbind_callback) };
+    }
+
     /// Creates a new instance of the registration object.
     pub fn new(name: &'static CStr, module: &'static ThisModule) -> impl PinInit<Self, Error> {
         try_pin_init!(Self {
@@ -189,6 +221,8 @@ impl<T: RegistrationOps> Registration<T> {
                 // just been initialised above, so it's also valid for read.
                 let drv = unsafe { &*(ptr as *const Opaque<T::DriverType>) };
 
+                Self::callbacks_attach(drv);
+
                 // SAFETY: `drv` is guaranteed to be pinned until `T::unregister`.
                 unsafe { T::register(drv, name, module) }
             }),

rust/kernel/i2c.rs

@@ -178,9 +178,9 @@ impl<T: Driver + 'static> Adapter<T> {
         // SAFETY: `remove_callback` is only ever called after a successful call to
         // `probe_callback`, hence it's guaranteed that `I2cClient::set_drvdata()` has been called
         // and stored a `Pin<KBox<T>>`.
-        let data = unsafe { idev.as_ref().drvdata_obtain::<T>() };
+        let data = unsafe { idev.as_ref().drvdata_borrow::<T>() };
 
-        T::unbind(idev, data.as_ref());
+        T::unbind(idev, data);
     }
 
     extern "C" fn shutdown_callback(idev: *mut bindings::i2c_client) {

rust/kernel/pci.rs

@@ -123,9 +123,9 @@ impl<T: Driver + 'static> Adapter<T> {
         // SAFETY: `remove_callback` is only ever called after a successful call to
         // `probe_callback`, hence it's guaranteed that `Device::set_drvdata()` has been called
         // and stored a `Pin<KBox<T>>`.
-        let data = unsafe { pdev.as_ref().drvdata_obtain::<T>() };
+        let data = unsafe { pdev.as_ref().drvdata_borrow::<T>() };
 
-        T::unbind(pdev, data.as_ref());
+        T::unbind(pdev, data);
     }
 }
 

rust/kernel/platform.rs

@@ -101,9 +101,9 @@ impl<T: Driver + 'static> Adapter<T> {
         // SAFETY: `remove_callback` is only ever called after a successful call to
         // `probe_callback`, hence it's guaranteed that `Device::set_drvdata()` has been called
         // and stored a `Pin<KBox<T>>`.
-        let data = unsafe { pdev.as_ref().drvdata_obtain::<T>() };
+        let data = unsafe { pdev.as_ref().drvdata_borrow::<T>() };
 
-        T::unbind(pdev, data.as_ref());
+        T::unbind(pdev, data);
     }
 }
 

rust/kernel/usb.rs

@@ -103,9 +103,9 @@ impl<T: Driver + 'static> Adapter<T> {
         // SAFETY: `disconnect_callback` is only ever called after a successful call to
         // `probe_callback`, hence it's guaranteed that `Device::set_drvdata()` has been called
         // and stored a `Pin<KBox<T>>`.
-        let data = unsafe { dev.drvdata_obtain::<T>() };
+        let data = unsafe { dev.drvdata_borrow::<T>() };
 
-        T::disconnect(intf, data.as_ref());
+        T::disconnect(intf, data);
     }
 }