From: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
To: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@kernel.org>,
Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: cdev: fix kernel stack leak to user-space in error path
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:03:06 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260917150306.GA131235@rigel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260917-gpio-cdev-stack-leak-fixes-v1-1-2bb52879e49c@oss.qualcomm.com>
On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 04:39:05PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> If we fail to acquire the GPIO chip guard in gpio_desc_to_lineinfo(), we
> return immediately before zeroing the info struct we'll end up passing
> to the user-space later in lineinfo_get_v1(). This may leak the kernel
> stack contents. Move the memset() before trying to acquire the SRCU read
> lock.
>
> Fixes: d83cee3d2bb1 ("gpio: protect the pointer to gpio_chip in gpio_device with SRCU")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
> Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260912123529.7951-1-tzungbi%40kernel.org?part=3
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com>
Reviewed-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
Cheers,
Kent.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-17 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-17 14:39 Bartosz Golaszewski
2026-09-17 15:03 ` Kent Gibson [this message]
2026-09-17 15:17 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-09-18 3:27 ` Kent Gibson
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