From: "Damien Riégel" <damien.riegel@silabs.com>
To: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>, Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
greybus-dev@lists.linaro.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Damien Riégel" <damien.riegel@silabs.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/2] greybus: raw: fix use-after-free if write is called after disconnect
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:25:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260324022510.28596-2-damien.riegel@silabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260324022510.28596-1-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 the write function doesn't try
to use a disconnected connection.
Fixes: e806c7fb8e9b ("greybus: raw: add raw greybus kernel driver")
Signed-off-by: Damien Riégel <damien.riegel@silabs.com>
---
Changes in v3:
- rename "connected" flag to "disconnected"
- acquire/release of write semaphore acquire/release were in
gb_raw_send, move them to the caller instead (raw_write)
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 | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/raw.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/raw.c
index e668438e1a2..1e7ffa10a50 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;
+ bool disconnected;
struct cdev cdev;
struct device dev;
};
@@ -200,6 +202,7 @@ 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;
greybus_set_drvdata(bundle, raw);
@@ -235,6 +238,11 @@ 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->disconnected = true;
+ up_write(&raw->disconnect_lock);
+
gb_connection_disable(connection);
gb_connection_destroy(connection);
@@ -277,11 +285,20 @@ static ssize_t raw_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
if (count > MAX_PACKET_SIZE)
return -E2BIG;
- retval = gb_raw_send(raw, count, buf);
- if (retval)
- return retval;
+ down_read(&raw->disconnect_lock);
- return count;
+ if (raw->disconnected) {
+ retval = -ENODEV;
+ goto exit;
+ }
+
+ retval = gb_raw_send(raw, count, buf);
+ if (!retval)
+ retval = count;
+exit:
+ up_read(&raw->disconnect_lock);
+
+ return retval;
}
static ssize_t raw_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t count,
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-24 2:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-24 2:25 [PATCH v3 1/2] greybus: raw: fix use-after-free on cdev close Damien Riégel
2026-03-24 2:25 ` Damien Riégel [this message]
2026-03-24 7:52 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] greybus: raw: fix use-after-free if write is called after disconnect Johan Hovold
2026-03-24 8:03 ` Johan Hovold
2026-03-24 7:45 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] greybus: raw: fix use-after-free on cdev close Johan Hovold
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