This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
watchdog: Fix potential kref imbalance when opening watchdog
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: watchdog-fix-potential-kref-imbalance-when-opening-watchdog.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Thu Mar 22 14:26:48 CET 2018
From: Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 09:17:01 -0700 Subject: watchdog: Fix potential kref imbalance when opening watchdog
From: Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net
[ Upstream commit 4bcd615fad6adddc68b058d498b30a9e0e0db77a ]
If a watchdog driver's open function sets WDOG_HW_RUNNING with the expectation that the watchdog can not be stopped, but then stops the watchdog anyway in its stop function, kref_get() wil not be called in watchdog_open(). If the watchdog then stops on close, WDOG_HW_RUNNING will be cleared and kref_put() will be called, causing a kref imbalance. As result the character device data structure will be released, which in turn will cause the system to crash on the next call to watchdog_open().
Fixes: ee142889e32f5 ("watchdog: Introduce WDOG_HW_RUNNING flag") Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck wim@iguana.be Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c @@ -768,6 +768,7 @@ static int watchdog_open(struct inode *i { struct watchdog_core_data *wd_data; struct watchdog_device *wdd; + bool hw_running; int err;
/* Get the corresponding watchdog device */ @@ -787,7 +788,8 @@ static int watchdog_open(struct inode *i * If the /dev/watchdog device is open, we don't want the module * to be unloaded. */ - if (!watchdog_hw_running(wdd) && !try_module_get(wdd->ops->owner)) { + hw_running = watchdog_hw_running(wdd); + if (!hw_running && !try_module_get(wdd->ops->owner)) { err = -EBUSY; goto out_clear; } @@ -798,7 +800,7 @@ static int watchdog_open(struct inode *i
file->private_data = wd_data;
- if (!watchdog_hw_running(wdd)) + if (!hw_running) kref_get(&wd_data->kref);
/* dev/watchdog is a virtual (and thus non-seekable) filesystem */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from linux@roeck-us.net are
queue-4.14/watchdog-fix-potential-kref-imbalance-when-opening-watchdog.patch queue-4.14/watchdog-fix-kref-imbalance-seen-if-handle_boot_enabled-0.patch