[PATCH RESEND v2 2/2] nfc: st21nfca: prevent double completion of SE APDU request

From: Joas Antonio dos Santos via B4 Relay

Date: Mon Nov 09 2026 - 22:38:02 EST


From: Joas Antonio dos Santos <joasantonio108@xxxxxxxxx>

Use the spinlock added in the previous commit to prevent completing an
SE APDU request more than once. Without this, the timeout work handler
(st21nfca_se_wt_work) and the EVT_TRANSMIT_DATA event handler can race
and both invoke the callback, leading to a use-after-free or double-free
of the callback context.

Check bwi_active under the lock in both completion paths and bail out if
the request was already completed. Also reject a new SE APDU request in
st21nfca_hci_se_io() while one is already in progress by returning
-EBUSY.

Found by LLM-assisted manual code review.

Fixes: 2130fb97fecf ("NFC: st21nfca: Adding support for secure element")
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joas Antonio dos Santos <joasantonio108@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/nfc/st21nfca/se.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/nfc/st21nfca/se.c b/drivers/nfc/st21nfca/se.c
index 03a30f797ff8..3be77420e956 100644
--- a/drivers/nfc/st21nfca/se.c
+++ b/drivers/nfc/st21nfca/se.c
@@ -228,6 +228,10 @@ int st21nfca_hci_se_io(struct nfc_hci_dev *hdev, u32 se_idx,
switch (se_idx) {
case ST21NFCA_ESE_HOST_ID:
spin_lock(&info->se_info.se_lock);
+ if (info->se_info.bwi_active) {
+ spin_unlock(&info->se_info.se_lock);
+ return -EBUSY;
+ }
info->se_info.cb = cb;
info->se_info.cb_context = cb_context;
info->se_info.bwi_active = true;
@@ -269,6 +273,10 @@ static void st21nfca_se_wt_work(struct work_struct *work)
se_info.timeout_work);

spin_lock(&info->se_info.se_lock);
+ if (!info->se_info.bwi_active) {
+ spin_unlock(&info->se_info.se_lock);
+ return;
+ }
info->se_info.bwi_active = false;
cb = info->se_info.cb;
cb_context = info->se_info.cb_context;
@@ -395,6 +403,10 @@ int st21nfca_apdu_reader_event_received(struct nfc_hci_dev *hdev,
cancel_work_sync(&info->se_info.timeout_work);

spin_lock(&info->se_info.se_lock);
+ if (!info->se_info.bwi_active) {
+ spin_unlock(&info->se_info.se_lock);
+ break;
+ }
info->se_info.bwi_active = false;
cb = info->se_info.cb;
cb_context = info->se_info.cb_context;

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2.43.0