From c0a40097f0bc81deafc15f9195d1fb54595cd6d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dirk Behme Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 07:06:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] drivers: core: synchronize really_probe() and dev_uevent() Synchronize the dev->driver usage in really_probe() and dev_uevent(). These can run in different threads, what can result in the following race condition for dev->driver uninitialization: Thread #1: ========== really_probe() { ... probe_failed: ... device_unbind_cleanup(dev) { ... dev->driver = NULL; // <= Failed probe sets dev->driver to NULL ... } ... } Thread #2: ========== dev_uevent() { ... if (dev->driver) // If dev->driver is NULLed from really_probe() from here on, // after above check, the system crashes add_uevent_var(env, "DRIVER=%s", dev->driver->name); ... } really_probe() holds the lock, already. So nothing needs to be done there. dev_uevent() is called with lock held, often, too. But not always. What implies that we can't add any locking in dev_uevent() itself. So fix this race by adding the lock to the non-protected path. This is the path where above race is observed: dev_uevent+0x235/0x380 uevent_show+0x10c/0x1f0 <= Add lock here dev_attr_show+0x3a/0xa0 sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x17c/0x250 kernfs_seq_show+0x7c/0x90 seq_read_iter+0x2d7/0x940 kernfs_fop_read_iter+0xc6/0x310 vfs_read+0x5bc/0x6b0 ksys_read+0xeb/0x1b0 __x64_sys_read+0x42/0x50 x64_sys_call+0x27ad/0x2d30 do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x1d0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f Similar cases are reported by syzkaller in https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ffa8143439596313a85a But these are regarding the *initialization* of dev->driver dev->driver = drv; As this switches dev->driver to non-NULL these reports can be considered to be false-positives (which should be "fixed" by this commit, as well, though). The same issue was reported and tried to be fixed back in 2015 in https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1421259054-2574-1-git-send-email-a.sangwan@samsung.com/ already. Fixes: 239378f16aa1 ("Driver core: add uevent vars for devices of a class") Cc: stable Cc: syzbot+ffa8143439596313a85a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Cc: Ashish Sangwan Cc: Namjae Jeon Signed-off-by: Dirk Behme Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240513050634.3964461-1-dirk.behme@de.bosch.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/base/core.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index 2e776fcc31b695..2b4c0624b7043a 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -2739,8 +2739,11 @@ static ssize_t uevent_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, if (!env) return -ENOMEM; + /* Synchronize with really_probe() */ + device_lock(dev); /* let the kset specific function add its keys */ retval = kset->uevent_ops->uevent(&dev->kobj, env); + device_unlock(dev); if (retval) goto out;