From: Gianfranco Dutka <gianfranco.dutka@arista.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Gianfranco Dutka <gianfranco.dutka@arista.com>,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] PCI/sysfs: NULL res_attr slot after kfree as defence against double-remove
Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 14:13:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260520211306.3301893-1-gianfranco.dutka@arista.com> (raw)
pci_remove_resource_files() frees the bin_attribute pointed at by
pdev->res_attr[i] / pdev->res_attr_wc[i] but does not clear the slot
after kfree(). If pci_remove_sysfs_dev_files() is ever invoked twice
against the same pdev, the second pass dereferences a freed
bin_attribute and faults inside strlen() called from
kernfs_remove_by_name_ns().
To the best of my knowledge no in-tree caller hits this today -- the
primary path (pci_stop_dev() -> pci_remove_sysfs_dev_files()) is
expected to fire once per device -- so this is being submitted as
defence-in-depth rather than as a fix for a reproducer in the upstream
tree. The motivation is that a freed-but-not-cleared pointer in a
device-lifetime table is a sharp edge: any future caller (in-tree or
out-of-tree) that re-enters the teardown path turns it into a UAF
with no warning. Other allocator-managed pointer tables in the
kernel NULL the slot after kfree() for exactly this reason, and the
two-line change makes pci_remove_resource_files() idempotent at
essentially zero cost.
For full disclosure: the way I encountered this was via an
out-of-tree PCIe hotplug driver on an AMD Ryzen Embedded V3000
platform. The driver re-enters pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device()
against a pdev that the standard pci_destroy_dev() path has already
torn down, and with slub_debug=FZPU the second entry faults with the
classic POISON_FREE signature:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b
RIP: strlen+0x4
Call Trace:
kernfs_find_ns
kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
sysfs_remove_bin_file
pci_remove_resource_files
pci_remove_sysfs_dev_files
pci_stop_bus_device
pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device
<out-of-tree hotplug driver remove path>
I am aware that "out-of-tree driver re-enters teardown" is not by
itself a reason to take a change upstream, and I would understand a
NACK on that basis. The reason I am still sending it is that the
fix is local, mechanical, matches an idiom already used elsewhere in
the kernel, and removes a class of bug rather than papering over the
specific caller that surfaced it.
Signed-off-by: Gianfranco Dutka <gianfranco.dutka@arista.com>
---
drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
--- a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
@@ -1228,11 +1228,13 @@ static void pci_remove_resource_files(struct pci_dev *pdev)
if (res_attr) {
sysfs_remove_bin_file(&pdev->dev.kobj, res_attr);
kfree(res_attr);
+ pdev->res_attr[i] = NULL;
}
res_attr = pdev->res_attr_wc[i];
if (res_attr) {
sysfs_remove_bin_file(&pdev->dev.kobj, res_attr);
kfree(res_attr);
+ pdev->res_attr_wc[i] = NULL;
}
}
}
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-05-20 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-20 21:13 Gianfranco Dutka [this message]
2026-05-20 22:45 ` Gianfranco Dutka
2026-05-21 11:54 ` Krzysztof Wilczyński
2026-05-21 10:22 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2026-05-21 12:01 ` Krzysztof Wilczyński
2026-05-21 12:04 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2026-05-21 11:59 ` Krzysztof Wilczyński
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