From: Aldo Ariel Panzardo <qwe.aldo@gmail.com>
To: jikos@kernel.org, bentiss@kernel.org
Cc: dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, linux-input@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Aldo Ariel Panzardo <qwe.aldo@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3] HID: multitouch: use kzalloc for haptic data to fix use-after-free
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2026 08:05:09 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261009110509.2432308-1-qwe.aldo@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261009032607.3233482-1-qwe.aldo@gmail.com>
mt_probe() allocates td->haptic with devm_kzalloc(), tying its
lifetime to the HID device's driver unbind. hid_haptic_init() then
stores the pointer in ff->private and installs hid_haptic_destroy()
as the force-feedback destroy callback.
When the HID device is removed while a process still holds an evdev
fd, devres frees td->haptic at unbind time. hid_haptic_destroy()
runs later from input_dev_release() and dereferences freed memory.
The input core then calls kfree(ff->private) on the same pointer,
double-freeing it.
The existing get_device()/put_device() pair in init/destroy pins the
struct hid_device but does not keep its devres allocations alive,
since devres runs at driver unbind, not at the final device kref put.
Replace devm_kzalloc() with plain kzalloc() so the haptic struct
survives driver unbind. The input core's input_ff_destroy() already
calls kfree(ff->private) after the destroy callback, so
hid_haptic_destroy() must not free the struct itself -- it only needs
to tear down the sub-allocations it owns.
On the non-haptic path in mt_probe(), replace devm_kfree() with
kfree(). On the error paths before hid_hw_start(), free the struct
explicitly since ownership has not yet transferred to the input core.
On hid_hw_start() failure, only free the struct when the haptic
subsystem was not initialized (td->is_haptic_touchpad is false);
otherwise the input core's teardown already freed it.
Fixes: 8d0bf7908b5a ("HID: multitouch: add haptic multitouch support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Aldo Ariel Panzardo <qwe.aldo@gmail.com>
---
v3: drop the kfree(haptic) added to hid_haptic_destroy() in v1/v2 --
input_ff_destroy() already calls kfree(ff->private) after the
destroy callback, so the explicit kfree was a guaranteed double
free (found by Sashiko AI review). Also handle the hid_hw_start()
failure path: free td->haptic only when the haptic subsystem was
not initialized (!td->is_haptic_touchpad), since otherwise the
input core's teardown already freed it.
v2: do not free td->haptic on hid_hw_start() failure (found by
Sashiko AI review).
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-input/20261009031207.3233206-1-qwe.aldo@gmail.com/
drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c | 21 +++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c b/drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c
index 4e19a0c4d..9cbe61832 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c
@@ -2132,7 +2132,7 @@ static int mt_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id *id)
dev_err(&hdev->dev, "cannot allocate multitouch data\n");
return -ENOMEM;
}
- td->haptic = devm_kzalloc(&hdev->dev, sizeof(*(td->haptic)), GFP_KERNEL);
+ td->haptic = kzalloc(sizeof(*(td->haptic)), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!td->haptic)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -2181,12 +2181,14 @@ static int mt_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id *id)
ret = hid_parse(hdev);
if (ret != 0)
- return ret;
+ goto err_free_haptic;
if (mtclass->name == MT_CLS_APPLE_TOUCHBAR &&
!hid_find_field(hdev, HID_INPUT_REPORT,
- HID_DG_TOUCHPAD, HID_DG_TRANSDUCER_INDEX))
- return -ENODEV;
+ HID_DG_TOUCHPAD, HID_DG_TRANSDUCER_INDEX)) {
+ ret = -ENODEV;
+ goto err_free_haptic;
+ }
if (mtclass->quirks & MT_QUIRK_FIX_CONST_CONTACT_ID)
mt_fix_const_fields(hdev, HID_DG_CONTACTID);
@@ -2195,8 +2197,11 @@ static int mt_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id *id)
hdev->quirks |= HID_QUIRK_NOGET;
ret = hid_hw_start(hdev, HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT);
- if (ret)
+ if (ret) {
+ if (!td->is_haptic_touchpad)
+ kfree(td->haptic);
return ret;
+ }
ret = sysfs_create_group(&hdev->dev.kobj, &mt_attribute_group);
if (ret)
@@ -2206,9 +2211,13 @@ static int mt_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id *id)
mt_set_modes(hdev, HID_LATENCY_NORMAL, TOUCHPAD_REPORT_ALL);
if (!td->is_haptic_touchpad)
- devm_kfree(&hdev->dev, td->haptic);
+ kfree(td->haptic);
return 0;
+
+err_free_haptic:
+ kfree(td->haptic);
+ return ret;
}
static int mt_suspend(struct hid_device *hdev, pm_message_t state)
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-09 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-09 3:26 [PATCH v2] HID: haptic: fix use-after-free of devm haptic data in hid_haptic_destroy() Aldo Ariel Panzardo
2026-10-09 11:05 ` Aldo Ariel Panzardo [this message]
2026-10-09 13:33 ` [PATCH v4] HID: multitouch: fix use-after-free of haptic data on delayed input release Aldo Ariel Panzardo
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