6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Koichiro Den koichiro.den@canonical.com
commit 12f65d1203507f7db3ba59930fe29a3b8eee9945 upstream.
Both new_device_store and delete_device_store touch module global resources (e.g. gpio_aggregator_lock). To prevent race conditions with module unload, a reference needs to be held.
Add try_module_get() in these handlers.
For new_device_store, this eliminates what appears to be the most dangerous scenario: if an id is allocated from gpio_aggregator_idr but platform_device_register has not yet been called or completed, a concurrent module unload could fail to unregister/delete the device, leaving behind a dangling platform device/GPIO forwarder. This can result in various issues. The following simple reproducer demonstrates these problems:
#!/bin/bash while :; do # note: whether 'gpiochip0 0' exists or not does not matter. echo 'gpiochip0 0' > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/gpio-aggregator/new_device done & while :; do modprobe gpio-aggregator modprobe -r gpio-aggregator done & wait
Starting with the following warning, several kinds of warnings will appear and the system may become unstable:
------------[ cut here ]------------ list_del corruption, ffff888103e2e980->next is LIST_POISON1 (dead000000000100) WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1327 at lib/list_debug.c:56 __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0xa3/0x120 [...] RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0xa3/0x120 [...] Call Trace: <TASK> ? __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0xa3/0x120 ? __warn.cold+0x93/0xf2 ? __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0xa3/0x120 ? report_bug+0xe6/0x170 ? __irq_work_queue_local+0x39/0xe0 ? handle_bug+0x58/0x90 ? exc_invalid_op+0x13/0x60 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20 ? __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0xa3/0x120 gpiod_remove_lookup_table+0x22/0x60 new_device_store+0x315/0x350 [gpio_aggregator] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x137/0x1f0 vfs_write+0x262/0x430 ksys_write+0x60/0xd0 do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x180 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [...] </TASK> ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Fixes: 828546e24280 ("gpio: Add GPIO Aggregator") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Koichiro Den koichiro.den@canonical.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250224143134.3024598-2-koichiro.den@canonical.co... Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/gpio/gpio-aggregator.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-aggregator.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-aggregator.c @@ -121,10 +121,15 @@ static ssize_t new_device_store(struct d struct platform_device *pdev; int res, id;
+ if (!try_module_get(THIS_MODULE)) + return -ENOENT; + /* kernfs guarantees string termination, so count + 1 is safe */ aggr = kzalloc(sizeof(*aggr) + count + 1, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!aggr) - return -ENOMEM; + if (!aggr) { + res = -ENOMEM; + goto put_module; + }
memcpy(aggr->args, buf, count + 1);
@@ -163,6 +168,7 @@ static ssize_t new_device_store(struct d }
aggr->pdev = pdev; + module_put(THIS_MODULE); return count;
remove_table: @@ -177,6 +183,8 @@ free_table: kfree(aggr->lookups); free_ga: kfree(aggr); +put_module: + module_put(THIS_MODULE); return res; }
@@ -205,13 +213,19 @@ static ssize_t delete_device_store(struc if (error) return error;
+ if (!try_module_get(THIS_MODULE)) + return -ENOENT; + mutex_lock(&gpio_aggregator_lock); aggr = idr_remove(&gpio_aggregator_idr, id); mutex_unlock(&gpio_aggregator_lock); - if (!aggr) + if (!aggr) { + module_put(THIS_MODULE); return -ENOENT; + }
gpio_aggregator_free(aggr); + module_put(THIS_MODULE); return count; } static DRIVER_ATTR_WO(delete_device);