[PATCH] greybus: operation: arm the timeout timer before sending the request

[Nguyen Ngoc Thang]

gb_operation_request_send() sends the request message and only then arms
the operation timer. The host driver can complete the operation before
add_timer() runs, e.g. when the transfer fails right away. The completion
work then calls timer_delete_sync() on a timer that is not armed yet,
the synchronous caller wakes up and drops the last reference, and
the operation is freed while the timer is still pending:

  ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: timer_list
          hint: gb_operation_timeout+0x0/0xc0
  WARNING: lib/debugobjects.c:629 at debug_print_object+0x198/0x2b0
   kmem_cache_free+0xfd/0x6d0
   gb_operation_sync_timeout+0x1c7/0x270
   gb_svc_process_deferred_request+0x5f3/0x1150

Arm the timer before the message is sent. If sending fails, delete the
timer again. If it has already fired, its work is queued and drops the
active and operation references itself, so the error path must not drop
them a second time.

Fixes: dbec27298b0d ("staging: greybus: operation: add generic timeout support")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: syzbot+a2e50fb40695811c2dab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=a2e50fb40695811c2dab
Signed-off-by: Nguyen Ngoc Thang <ngocthang2710.1999@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/greybus/operation.c | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/greybus/operation.c b/drivers/greybus/operation.c
index 7e12ffb2dd60..19b0cdeca498 100644
--- a/drivers/greybus/operation.c
+++ b/drivers/greybus/operation.c
@@ -766,17 +766,22 @@ int gb_operation_request_send(struct gb_operation *operation,
 	if (ret)
 		goto err_put;
 
-	ret = gb_message_send(operation->request, gfp);
-	if (ret)
-		goto err_put_active;
-
+	/* Arm before sending, as the response may complete the operation at once. */
 	if (timeout) {
 		operation->timer.expires = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(timeout);
 		add_timer(&operation->timer);
 	}
 
+	ret = gb_message_send(operation->request, gfp);
+	if (ret)
+		goto err_del_timer;
+
 	return 0;
 
+err_del_timer:
+	/* A timer that already fired has queued work which drops our references. */
+	if (timeout && !timer_delete_sync(&operation->timer))
+		return ret;
 err_put_active:
 	gb_operation_put_active(operation);
 err_put:
-- 
2.43.0