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From: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>,
	Matthew Gerlach <matthew.gerlach@altera.com>,
	Mahesh Rao <mahesh.rao@altera.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: stratix10-svc: Use proper atomic to fix possible double free
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 11:29:23 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4e1b3b0d-f831-450f-9974-746c86ef0c23@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261101122908.46723-2-krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>



On 11/1/26 06:29, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Doing atomic_dec() and then separate atomic_read() leaves small race
> window leading to double free in stratix10_svc_remove_async_client():
> 
> CPU 0                               CPU 1
> =====                               =====
> refcount == 2
> 
> stratix10_svc_remove_async_client() stratix10_svc_remove_async_client()
> atomic_dec(&refcount);
>                                      atomic_dec(&refcount);
> if (atomic_read(&refcount) == 0)
>    kfree(achan);
>                                      if (atomic_read(&refcount) == 0)
>                                        kfree(achan); // double free
> 
> Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
> Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/bug/linux-506b1474-e503-4085-b62a-929cde036317
> Fixes: bcb9f4f07061 ("firmware: stratix10-svc: Add support for async communication")
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
> ---
>   drivers/firmware/stratix10-svc.c | 3 +--
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/stratix10-svc.c b/drivers/firmware/stratix10-svc.c
> index 88391ea161ed..aca4d354bdd7 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/stratix10-svc.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/stratix10-svc.c
> @@ -1444,8 +1444,7 @@ int stratix10_svc_remove_async_client(struct stratix10_svc_chan *chan)
>   	}
>   
>   	if (achan == actrl->common_async_chan) {
> -		atomic_dec(&actrl->common_achan_refcount);
> -		if (atomic_read(&actrl->common_achan_refcount) == 0) {
> +		if (atomic_dec_and_test(&actrl->common_achan_refcount)) {
>   			ida_destroy(&achan->job_id_pool);
>   			ida_free(&actrl->async_id_pool,
>   				 achan->async_client_id);

Applied!

Thanks,
Dinh

      reply	other threads:[~2026-11-09 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-01 12:29 Krzysztof Kozlowski
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