[PATCH] uio: fix a sleep-in-atomic-context bug in uio_dmem_genirq_irqcontrol()

From: Jia-Ju Bai
Date: Wed Dec 18 2019 - 04:44:25 EST


The driver may sleep while holding a spinlock.
The function call path (from bottom to top) in Linux 4.19 is:

kernel/irq/manage.c, 523:
synchronize_irq in disable_irq
drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.c, 140:
disable_irq in uio_dmem_genirq_irqcontrol
drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.c, 134:
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave in uio_dmem_genirq_irqcontrol

synchronize_irq() can sleep at runtime.

To fix this bug, disable_irq() is called without holding the spinlock.

This bug is found by a static analysis tool STCheck written by myself.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.c b/drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.c
index 81c88f7bbbcb..f6ab3f28c838 100644
--- a/drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.c
+++ b/drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.c
@@ -132,11 +132,13 @@ static int uio_dmem_genirq_irqcontrol(struct uio_info *dev_info, s32 irq_on)
if (irq_on) {
if (test_and_clear_bit(0, &priv->flags))
enable_irq(dev_info->irq);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
} else {
- if (!test_and_set_bit(0, &priv->flags))
+ if (!test_and_set_bit(0, &priv->flags)) {
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
disable_irq(dev_info->irq);
+ }
}
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);

return 0;
}
--
2.17.1