[PATCH] HID: rmi: fix use-after-free of struct rmi_data via reset_work
From: Wei Jie Law
Date: Mon Aug 24 2026 - 23:50:08 EST
rmi_event() queues hdata->reset_work for any pointer/mouse usage as soon
as RMI_DEVICE is set, but rmi_remove() only cancels the work when
RMI_STARTED is set:
if ((hdata->device_flags & RMI_DEVICE)
&& test_bit(RMI_STARTED, &hdata->flags)) {
clear_bit(RMI_STARTED, &hdata->flags);
cancel_work_sync(&hdata->reset_work);
rmi_unregister_transport_device(&hdata->xport);
}
RMI_STARTED is set at the very end of rmi_input_configured(), so a device
that advertises the RMI report IDs - which is what makes rmi_probe() set
RMI_DEVICE - but then makes rmi_input_configured() fail leaves the work
schedulable and never cancelled. Never answering the SET_REPORT that
rmi_set_mode() issues is enough, i.e. exactly the unreachable-device case
the guard was added for. rmi_probe() still returns 0 there, because
hidraw claims the device, so the driver stays bound and rmi_event() keeps
running.
struct rmi_data is devm_kzalloc()'d on &hdev->dev, so hid_device_remove()
releases it as soon as ->remove() returns, with the work still queued or
still running. The workqueue then reads and writes the freed object:
process_one_work() stores into work->data, list_del_init()s work->entry,
and loads work->func out of freed memory before calling it, while
rmi_reset_work() dereferences hdata->hdev, which the same unplug freed.
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in process_one_work+0xd96/0x10b0
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881095c0540 by task kworker/0:4/3058
[...]
Allocated by task 450:
devm_kmalloc+0x7c/0x220
rmi_probe+0x36/0xcf0 [hid_rmi]
hid_device_probe+0x286/0x430
Freed by task 9278:
kfree+0x125/0x420
release_nodes+0xf0/0x260
devres_release_group+0x23a/0x3a0
hid_device_remove+0xf5/0x220
The read is of hdata->reset_work.func, 320 bytes into the freed 512-byte
region, which process_one_work() calls straight afterwards. Without KASAN
the same reproducer oopses in rmi_reset_work() and leaves the kworker
"exited with irqs disabled".
Cancel the work unconditionally in rmi_remove(), and do not queue it
before rmi_input_configured() has succeeded or after rmi_remove() has
cleared RMI_STARTED.
A report can still pass the RMI_STARTED test in rmi_event() just before
rmi_remove() clears the bit and queue the work after that cancel, so cancel
once more after hid_hw_stop() has stopped the report flow, and make
rmi_reset_work() bail out when RMI_STARTED is clear - by then the transport
device it would reset has been unregistered.
Fixes: 8725aa4fa7de ("HID: rmi: Check that the RMI_STARTED bit is set before unregistering the RMI transport device")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Wei Jie Law <98lawweijie@xxxxxxxxx>
---
This is independent of the pending "HID: rmi: fix OOB access with
undersized RMI reports" v3 [1] -- they touch different functions, and
either order applies cleanly. They are worth taking together, though.
That patch makes a zero-length READ_DATA reply fail rmi_hid_read_block()
with -EIO instead of spinning in it, so rmi_scan_pdt(), and hence
rmi_input_configured(), now fail where they previously hung with the
device lock held. That failure leaves RMI_DEVICE set and RMI_STARTED
clear -- the state this patch is about -- and, because the probe no
longer hangs, it also lets the unplug that triggers the use-after-free
complete. The route described above, never answering the SET_REPORT
that rmi_set_mode() issues, reaches the same state on an unpatched tree,
so this is not a regression from that patch; it is a second way in, and
an argument for the two landing in the same release.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260824122708.76168-1-98lawweijie@xxxxxxxxx/
drivers/hid/hid-rmi.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-rmi.c b/drivers/hid/hid-rmi.c
index d4af17fdba46..13a301404ff8 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-rmi.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-rmi.c
@@ -313,6 +313,14 @@ static void rmi_reset_work(struct work_struct *work)
struct rmi_data *hdata = container_of(work, struct rmi_data,
reset_work);
+ /*
+ * A report that raced with rmi_remove() may have queued us after it
+ * cleared RMI_STARTED, i.e. after the transport device we would reset
+ * has been unregistered.
+ */
+ if (!test_bit(RMI_STARTED, &hdata->flags))
+ return;
+
/* switch the device to RMI if we receive a generic mouse report */
rmi_reset_attn_mode(hdata->hdev);
}
@@ -412,7 +420,13 @@ static int rmi_event(struct hid_device *hdev, struct hid_field *field,
return 1;
}
- schedule_work(&data->reset_work);
+ /*
+ * Only reset a device that finished rmi_input_configured();
+ * before that, and after rmi_remove() has cleared the bit,
+ * struct rmi_data may go away under the work.
+ */
+ if (test_bit(RMI_STARTED, &data->flags))
+ schedule_work(&data->reset_work);
return 1;
}
@@ -739,15 +753,29 @@ static int rmi_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id *id)
static void rmi_remove(struct hid_device *hdev)
{
struct rmi_data *hdata = hid_get_drvdata(hdev);
+ bool started = test_and_clear_bit(RMI_STARTED, &hdata->flags);
- if ((hdata->device_flags & RMI_DEVICE)
- && test_bit(RMI_STARTED, &hdata->flags)) {
- clear_bit(RMI_STARTED, &hdata->flags);
- cancel_work_sync(&hdata->reset_work);
+ /*
+ * reset_work lives inside the devm-allocated hdata, which is freed as
+ * soon as this returns, so it has to be cancelled whether or not the
+ * device ever reached the RMI_STARTED state. Cancel it here, while
+ * the transport device it resets is still registered.
+ */
+ cancel_work_sync(&hdata->reset_work);
+
+ if ((hdata->device_flags & RMI_DEVICE) && started)
rmi_unregister_transport_device(&hdata->xport);
- }
hid_hw_stop(hdev);
+
+ /*
+ * A report that passed the RMI_STARTED test in rmi_event() just before
+ * the clear above can queue the work again after that first cancel.
+ * Such a work item does nothing, but it still has to be reaped before
+ * hdata goes away. hid_hw_stop() has stopped the report flow, so no
+ * further queueing is possible by now.
+ */
+ cancel_work_sync(&hdata->reset_work);
}
static const struct hid_device_id rmi_id[] = {
--
2.43.0