From: "Damien Riégel" <damien.riegel@silabs.com>
To: greybus-dev@lists.linaro.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Cc: "Damien Riégel" <damien.riegel@silabs.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] greybus: raw: fix use-after-free if write is called after disconnect
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:20:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260319162049.42269-2-damien.riegel@silabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260319162049.42269-1-damien.riegel@silabs.com>
If a user writes to the chardev after disconnect has been called, the
kernel panics with the following trace (with
CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON=y):
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000218
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
gb_operation_create_common+0x61/0x180
gb_operation_create_flags+0x28/0xa0
gb_operation_sync_timeout+0x6f/0x100
raw_write+0x7b/0xc7 [gb_raw]
vfs_write+0xcf/0x420
? task_mm_cid_work+0x136/0x220
ksys_write+0x63/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x290
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Disconnect calls gb_connection_destroy, which ends up freeing the
connection object. When gb_operation_sync is called in the write file
operations, its gets a freed connection as parameter and the kernel
panics.
The gb_connection_destroy cannot be moved out of the disconnect
function, as the Greybus subsystem expect all connections belonging to a
bundle to be destroyed when disconnect returns.
To prevent this bug, use a rw lock to synchronize access between write
and disconnect. This guarantees that in the write function
raw->connection is either a valid object or a NULL pointer.
Fixes: e806c7fb8e9b ("greybus: raw: add raw greybus kernel driver")
Signed-off-by: Damien Riégel <damien.riegel@silabs.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- trim down trace in commit message to keep only the essential part
- convert the mutex that protected the connection to a rw_semaphore
- use a "connected" flag instead of relying on the connection pointer
being NULL or not
drivers/staging/greybus/raw.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/raw.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/raw.c
index 6da878e4339..57bf5032280 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/greybus/raw.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/raw.c
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ struct gb_raw {
struct list_head list;
int list_data;
struct mutex list_lock;
+ struct rw_semaphore disconnect_lock; /* Synchronize access to connection */
+ bool connected;
struct cdev cdev;
struct device dev;
};
@@ -124,7 +126,6 @@ static int gb_raw_request_handler(struct gb_operation *op)
static int gb_raw_send(struct gb_raw *raw, u32 len, const char __user *data)
{
- struct gb_connection *connection = raw->connection;
struct gb_raw_send_request *request;
int retval;
@@ -139,9 +140,18 @@ static int gb_raw_send(struct gb_raw *raw, u32 len, const char __user *data)
request->len = cpu_to_le32(len);
- retval = gb_operation_sync(connection, GB_RAW_TYPE_SEND,
+ down_read(&raw->disconnect_lock);
+
+ if (!raw->connected) {
+ retval = -ENODEV;
+ goto exit;
+ }
+
+ retval = gb_operation_sync(raw->connection, GB_RAW_TYPE_SEND,
request, len + sizeof(*request),
NULL, 0);
+exit:
+ up_read(&raw->disconnect_lock);
kfree(request);
return retval;
@@ -199,6 +209,7 @@ static int gb_raw_probe(struct gb_bundle *bundle,
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&raw->list);
mutex_init(&raw->list_lock);
+ init_rwsem(&raw->disconnect_lock);
raw->connection = connection;
raw->dev.parent = &connection->bundle->dev;
@@ -210,6 +221,8 @@ static int gb_raw_probe(struct gb_bundle *bundle,
if (retval)
goto error_connection_destroy;
+ raw->connected = true;
+
retval = cdev_device_add(&raw->cdev, &raw->dev);
if (retval)
goto error_connection_disable;
@@ -235,6 +248,11 @@ static void gb_raw_disconnect(struct gb_bundle *bundle)
struct raw_data *temp;
cdev_device_del(&raw->cdev, &raw->dev);
+
+ down_write(&raw->disconnect_lock);
+ raw->connected = false;
+ up_write(&raw->disconnect_lock);
+
gb_connection_disable(connection);
gb_connection_destroy(connection);
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-19 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-19 16:20 [PATCH v2 1/2] greybus: raw: fix use-after-free on cdev close Damien Riégel
2026-03-19 16:20 ` Damien Riégel [this message]
2026-03-23 14:30 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] greybus: raw: fix use-after-free if write is called after disconnect Johan Hovold
2026-03-23 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] greybus: raw: fix use-after-free on cdev close Johan Hovold
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