Repeated loading and unloading of a device specific QAT driver, for example qat_4xxx, in a tight loop can lead to a crash due to a use-after-free scenario. This occurs when a power management (PM) interrupt triggers just before the device-specific driver (e.g., qat_4xxx.ko) is unloaded, while the core driver (intel_qat.ko) remains loaded.
Since the driver uses a shared workqueue (`qat_misc_wq`) across all devices and owned by intel_qat.ko, a deferred routine from the device-specific driver may still be pending in the queue. If this routine executes after the driver is unloaded, it can dereference freed memory, resulting in a page fault and kernel crash like the following:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffa000002e50a01c #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode RIP: 0010:pm_bh_handler+0x1d2/0x250 [intel_qat] Call Trace: pm_bh_handler+0x1d2/0x250 [intel_qat] process_one_work+0x171/0x340 worker_thread+0x277/0x3a0 kthread+0xf0/0x120 ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50
To prevent this, flush the misc workqueue during device shutdown to ensure that all pending work items are completed before the driver is unloaded.
Note: This approach may slightly increase shutdown latency if the workqueue contains jobs from other devices, but it ensures correctness and stability.
Fixes: e5745f34113b ("crypto: qat - enable power management for QAT GEN4") Signed-off-by: Giovanni Cabiddu giovanni.cabiddu@intel.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Ahsan Atta ahsan.atta@intel.com --- drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_common_drv.h | 1 + drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_init.c | 1 + drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_isr.c | 5 +++++ 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_common_drv.h b/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_common_drv.h index eaa6388a6678..7a022bd4ae07 100644 --- a/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_common_drv.h +++ b/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_common_drv.h @@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ void adf_exit_misc_wq(void); bool adf_misc_wq_queue_work(struct work_struct *work); bool adf_misc_wq_queue_delayed_work(struct delayed_work *work, unsigned long delay); +void adf_misc_wq_flush(void); #if defined(CONFIG_PCI_IOV) int adf_sriov_configure(struct pci_dev *pdev, int numvfs); void adf_disable_sriov(struct adf_accel_dev *accel_dev); diff --git a/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_init.c b/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_init.c index f189cce7d153..46491048e0bb 100644 --- a/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_init.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_init.c @@ -404,6 +404,7 @@ static void adf_dev_shutdown(struct adf_accel_dev *accel_dev) hw_data->exit_admin_comms(accel_dev);
adf_cleanup_etr_data(accel_dev); + adf_misc_wq_flush(); adf_dev_restore(accel_dev); }
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_isr.c b/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_isr.c index cae1aee5479a..12e565613661 100644 --- a/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_isr.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_isr.c @@ -407,3 +407,8 @@ bool adf_misc_wq_queue_delayed_work(struct delayed_work *work, { return queue_delayed_work(adf_misc_wq, work, delay); } + +void adf_misc_wq_flush(void) +{ + flush_workqueue(adf_misc_wq); +}
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