* [PATCH v1 1/3] misc: fastrpc: initialise channel refcount before exposing the misc device
2026-10-07 8:44 [PATCH v1 0/3] misc: fastrpc: fix UAF and Oops around SSR teardown Jianping Li
@ 2026-10-07 8:44 ` Jianping Li
2026-10-07 8:44 ` [PATCH v1 2/3] misc: fastrpc: wake poll-mode waiters on SSR Jianping Li
2026-10-07 8:44 ` [PATCH v1 3/3] misc: fastrpc: drain in-flight invokes before tearing down context banks Jianping Li
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jianping Li @ 2026-10-07 8:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Srinivas Kandagatla, Ekansh Gupta
Cc: Jianping Li, Arnd Bergmann, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Thierry Escande,
linux-arm-msm, dri-devel, linux-kernel, quic_chennak
fastrpc_device_register() calls misc_register(), which immediately makes
/dev/fastrpc-<domain> visible to userspace. However, kref_init() on the
channel context refcount only runs after the whole domain switch()
completes, several statements later.
Any process that opens the device in that window reaches
fastrpc_device_open() -> fastrpc_channel_ctx_get() -> kref_get() on a
refcount that has never been initialised and is still zero, which
refcount_t correctly reports as a use-after-free:
refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 760 at lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0x120/0x144
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 760 Comm: adsprpcd
Call trace:
refcount_warn_saturate
fastrpc_device_open [fastrpc]
misc_open
chrdev_open
do_dentry_open
vfs_open
path_openat
do_filp_open
do_sys_openat2
__arm64_sys_openat
This is easy to hit after a subsystem restart, when the DSP daemon
reopens the device as soon as it observes the PD coming back up, racing
with fastrpc_rpmsg_probe() on the rebind path.
Move kref_init() ahead of the device registration so the refcount is
always valid by the time the node is reachable from userspace.
Fixes: f6f9279f2bf0 ("misc: fastrpc: Add Qualcomm fastrpc basic driver model")
Signed-off-by: Jianping Li <jianping.li@oss.qualcomm.com>
---
drivers/misc/fastrpc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c b/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
index af18ff1992ee..05b2e7e4ad3b 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
@@ -2599,6 +2599,7 @@ static int fastrpc_rpmsg_probe(struct rpmsg_device *rpdev)
data->poll_mode_supported = soc_data->poll_mode_supported ||
of_machine_get_match(fastrpc_poll_supported_machines);
+ kref_init(&data->refcount);
switch (domain_id) {
case ADSP_DOMAIN_ID:
case MDSP_DOMAIN_ID:
@@ -2626,7 +2627,6 @@ static int fastrpc_rpmsg_probe(struct rpmsg_device *rpdev)
goto err_free_data;
}
- kref_init(&data->refcount);
atomic_set(&data->ctx_seq, 0);
rdev->dma_mask = &data->dma_mask;
--
2.43.0
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2026-10-07 8:44 [PATCH v1 0/3] misc: fastrpc: fix UAF and Oops around SSR teardown Jianping Li
2026-10-07 8:44 ` [PATCH v1 1/3] misc: fastrpc: initialise channel refcount before exposing the misc device Jianping Li
@ 2026-10-07 8:44 ` Jianping Li
2026-10-07 8:44 ` [PATCH v1 3/3] misc: fastrpc: drain in-flight invokes before tearing down context banks Jianping Li
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jianping Li @ 2026-10-07 8:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Srinivas Kandagatla, Ekansh Gupta
Cc: Jianping Li, Arnd Bergmann, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Thierry Escande,
linux-arm-msm, dri-devel, linux-kernel, quic_chennak
fastrpc_notify_users() sets ctx->retval to -EPIPE and completes
ctx->work for every pending and interrupted context, which is enough to
release a thread blocked in fastrpc_wait_for_response().
A thread using polling mode does not wait on that completion. It spins
in poll_for_remote_response(), whose exit condition is:
(val == FASTRPC_POLL_RESPONSE) || ctx->is_work_done
Since the DSP is already down, it will never write FASTRPC_POLL_RESPONSE
into the poll address, and is_work_done is left untouched by
fastrpc_notify_users(). The thread therefore keeps spinning until
FASTRPC_POLL_MAX_TIMEOUT_US expires instead of bailing out immediately.
Worse, the poll address lives inside ctx->buf, so a polling thread that
has not been told to stop is still reading a buffer that the SSR
teardown path is about to reclaim.
Set is_work_done along with retval so polling waiters observe the
termination on their next iteration, exactly like completion waiters do.
Signed-off-by: Jianping Li <jianping.li@oss.qualcomm.com>
---
drivers/misc/fastrpc.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c b/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
index 05b2e7e4ad3b..c54c450cb571 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
@@ -2663,6 +2663,7 @@ static void fastrpc_notify_users(struct fastrpc_user *user)
spin_lock(&user->lock);
list_for_each_entry(ctx, &user->pending, node) {
ctx->retval = -EPIPE;
+ ctx->is_work_done = true;
complete(&ctx->work);
}
spin_unlock(&user->lock);
--
2.43.0
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2026-10-07 8:44 [PATCH v1 0/3] misc: fastrpc: fix UAF and Oops around SSR teardown Jianping Li
2026-10-07 8:44 ` [PATCH v1 1/3] misc: fastrpc: initialise channel refcount before exposing the misc device Jianping Li
2026-10-07 8:44 ` [PATCH v1 2/3] misc: fastrpc: wake poll-mode waiters on SSR Jianping Li
@ 2026-10-07 8:44 ` Jianping Li
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jianping Li @ 2026-10-07 8:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Srinivas Kandagatla, Ekansh Gupta
Cc: Jianping Li, Arnd Bergmann, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Thierry Escande,
linux-arm-msm, dri-devel, linux-kernel, quic_chennak
fastrpc_rpmsg_remove() clears cctx->rpdev, wakes every pending invoke
with -EPIPE through fastrpc_notify_users(), and then goes straight on to
of_platform_depopulate() the context bank devices, with nothing
synchronising the two:
- The only thing stopping new work is the unlocked rpdev check at the
top of fastrpc_internal_invoke(). A thread can observe a valid rpdev,
get preempted, and resume in the middle of the teardown.
- Invokes that were already admitted are woken and head for the bail:
label, where fastrpc_context_put() releases ctx->buf through
dma_free_coherent(). If the depopulate wins, the call runs against an
unbound context bank and falls through to dma_direct_free(), which
treats the IOVA as a physical address.
Close both windows under cctx->lock:
- Add cctx->teardown, set at the start of fastrpc_rpmsg_remove().
fastrpc_internal_invoke() checks it and, in the same critical
section, increments cctx->invoke_cnt, so an invoke is either rejected
or counted. The count is dropped on every return path.
- fastrpc_rpmsg_remove() waits for invoke_cnt to reach zero before
clearing rpdev and before touching any other channel resource.
The gate lives in fastrpc_internal_invoke() rather than in the ioctl
dispatcher so that it also covers fastrpc_device_release() ->
fastrpc_release_current_dsp_process(), which sends INIT_RELEASE outside
of any ioctl.
Teardown is kept separate from rpdev because the two have different
lifetimes: the gate must close immediately, whereas rpdev has to stay
valid until the admitted invokes have finished rpmsg_send(). Clearing
rpdev up front, as the code does today, lets an invoke that was sleeping
in an allocation dereference a NULL rpdev:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
0000000000000358
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 2003 Comm: adsprpcd
pc : fastrpc_internal_invoke+0xb40/0x1398 [fastrpc]
Call trace:
fastrpc_internal_invoke [fastrpc]
fastrpc_device_release [fastrpc]
__fput
__arm64_sys_close
The faulting address is the offset of ept within struct rpmsg_device,
i.e. the cctx->rpdev->ept dereference in rpmsg_send().
Signed-off-by: Jianping Li <jianping.li@oss.qualcomm.com>
---
drivers/misc/fastrpc.c | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c b/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
index c54c450cb571..3036925632d0 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
@@ -328,6 +328,15 @@ struct fastrpc_channel_ctx {
atomic_t ctx_seq;
u64 dma_mask;
const struct fastrpc_soc_data *soc_data;
+ /*
+ * Set once fastrpc_rpmsg_remove() starts tearing the channel down.
+ * Checked under @lock so that no new invoke can begin afterwards.
+ */
+ atomic_t teardown;
+ /* Number of in-flight invokes; guarded by @lock */
+ int invoke_cnt;
+ /* Woken whenever @invoke_cnt drops to zero */
+ wait_queue_head_t ssr_wait_queue;
};
struct fastrpc_device {
@@ -1350,12 +1359,23 @@ static int fastrpc_wait_for_completion(struct fastrpc_invoke_ctx *ctx,
return fastrpc_wait_for_response(ctx, kernel);
}
+/* Caller must hold cctx->lock */
+static void fastrpc_channel_update_invoke_cnt(struct fastrpc_channel_ctx *cctx,
+ bool enter)
+{
+ if (enter)
+ cctx->invoke_cnt++;
+ else if (--cctx->invoke_cnt == 0)
+ wake_up(&cctx->ssr_wait_queue);
+}
+
static int fastrpc_internal_invoke(struct fastrpc_user *fl, u32 kernel,
u32 handle, u32 sc,
struct fastrpc_invoke_args *args)
{
struct fastrpc_invoke_ctx *ctx = NULL;
struct fastrpc_buf *buf, *b;
+ unsigned long flags;
int err = 0;
@@ -1365,14 +1385,25 @@ static int fastrpc_internal_invoke(struct fastrpc_user *fl, u32 kernel,
if (!fl->cctx->rpdev)
return -EPIPE;
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&fl->cctx->lock, flags);
+ if (atomic_read(&fl->cctx->teardown)) {
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fl->cctx->lock, flags);
+ return -EPIPE;
+ }
+ fastrpc_channel_update_invoke_cnt(fl->cctx, true);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fl->cctx->lock, flags);
+
if (handle == FASTRPC_INIT_HANDLE && !kernel) {
dev_warn_ratelimited(fl->sctx->dev, "user app trying to send a kernel RPC message (%d)\n", handle);
- return -EPERM;
+ err = -EPERM;
+ goto out;
}
ctx = fastrpc_context_alloc(fl, kernel, sc, args);
- if (IS_ERR(ctx))
- return PTR_ERR(ctx);
+ if (IS_ERR(ctx)) {
+ err = PTR_ERR(ctx);
+ goto out;
+ }
err = fastrpc_get_args(kernel, ctx);
if (err)
@@ -1428,6 +1459,10 @@ static int fastrpc_internal_invoke(struct fastrpc_user *fl, u32 kernel,
if (err)
dev_dbg(fl->sctx->dev, "Error: Invoke Failed %d\n", err);
+out:
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&fl->cctx->lock, flags);
+ fastrpc_channel_update_invoke_cnt(fl->cctx, false);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fl->cctx->lock, flags);
return err;
}
@@ -2635,6 +2670,9 @@ static int fastrpc_rpmsg_probe(struct rpmsg_device *rpdev)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&data->invoke_interrupted_mmaps);
spin_lock_init(&data->lock);
idr_init(&data->ctx_idr);
+ atomic_set(&data->teardown, 0);
+ data->invoke_cnt = 0;
+ init_waitqueue_head(&data->ssr_wait_queue);
data->domain_id = domain_id;
data->rpdev = rpdev;
dev_set_drvdata(&rpdev->dev, data);
@@ -2678,11 +2716,25 @@ static void fastrpc_rpmsg_remove(struct rpmsg_device *rpdev)
/* No invocations past this point */
spin_lock_irqsave(&cctx->lock, flags);
- cctx->rpdev = NULL;
+ atomic_set(&cctx->teardown, 1);
list_for_each_entry(user, &cctx->users, user)
fastrpc_notify_users(user);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cctx->lock, flags);
+ /*
+ * Wait for every invoke that was already past the gate to finish.
+ * They have all just been woken with -EPIPE, and no new one can be
+ * counted, so this is guaranteed to make progress.
+ */
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&cctx->lock, flags);
+ while (cctx->invoke_cnt > 0) {
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cctx->lock, flags);
+ wait_event(cctx->ssr_wait_queue, cctx->invoke_cnt == 0);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&cctx->lock, flags);
+ }
+ cctx->rpdev = NULL;
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cctx->lock, flags);
+
if (cctx->fdevice)
misc_deregister(&cctx->fdevice->miscdev);
--
2.43.0
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