Re: [PATCH v6 0/2] gpiolib: don't allow user-space to crash the kernel with hot-unplugs

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 1:59 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This is (hopefully) the final iteration of the changes that aim at fixing
> the situation in which the user-space can provoke a NULL-pointer derefence
> in the kernel when a GPIO device that's in use by user-space is removed.
>
> v5 -> v6:
> - signal an error in poll callbacks instead of returning 0 which would make
>   the user-space assume a timeout occurred (which could lead to user-space
>   spinning a timeout loop forever)
>
> v4 -> v5:
> - try to acquire the semaphore for reading and bail out of syscall callbacks
>   immediately in case of lock contention
>
> v3 -> v4:
> - use function typedefs to make code cleaner
> - add a blank line after down_write()
>
> v2 -> v3:
> - drop the helper variable in patch 1/2 as we won't be using it in 2/2
> - refactor patch 2/2 to use locking wrappers around the syscall callbacks
>
> v1 -> v2:
> - add missing gdev->chip checks in patch 1/2
> - add a second patch that protects the structures that can be accessed
>   by user-space calls against concurrent removal
>
> Bartosz Golaszewski (2):
>   gpiolib: cdev: fix NULL-pointer dereferences
>   gpiolib: protect the GPIO device against being dropped while in use by
>     user-space
>
>  drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c      |   4 +
>  drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h      |   5 +
>  3 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.37.2
>

I know Kent and Linus left their review tags already, I will add them
when applying.

Bart