Re: [PATCH] PM: core: Fix handling of devices deleted during system-wide resume

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 12:11:24AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> If a device is deleted by one of its system-wide resume callbacks
> (for example, because it does not appear to be present or accessible
> any more) along with its children, the resume of the children may
> continue leading to use-after-free errors and other issues
> (potentially).
> 
> Namely, if the device's children are resumed asynchronously, their
> resume may have been scheduled already before the device's callback
> runs and so the device may be deleted while dpm_wait_for_superior()
> is being executed for them.  The memory taken up by the parent device
> object may be freed then while dpm_wait() is waiting for the parent's
> resume callback to complete, which leads to a use-after-free.
> Moreover, the resume of the children is really not expected to
> continue after they have been unregistered, so it must be terminated
> right away in that case.
> 
> To address this problem, modify dpm_wait_for_superior() to check
> if the target device is still there in the system-wide PM list of
> devices and if so, to increment its parent's reference counter, both
> under dpm_list_mtx which prevents device_del() running for the child
> from dropping the parent's reference counter prematurely.
> 
> If the device is not present in the system-wide PM list of devices
> any more, the resume of it cannot continue, so check that again after
> dpm_wait() returns, which means that the parent's callback has been
> completed, and pass the result of that check to the caller of
> dpm_wait_for_superior() to allow it to abort the device's resume
> if it is not there any more.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/1579568452-27253-1-git-send-email-chanho.min@xxxxxxx
> Reported-by: Chanho Min <chanho.min@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/base/power/main.c |   42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>