[PATCH] gpio: cdev: fix a crash on line-request release

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Tue May 23 2023 - 11:51:28 EST


When a GPIO device is forcefully unregistered, we are left with an
inactive object. If user-space kept an open file descriptor to a line
request associated with such a structure, upon closing it, we'll see the
kernel crash due to freeing unexistent GPIO descriptors.

Fix it by checking if chip is still alive before calling gpiod_free() in
release callbacks for both v2 and v1 ABI.

Fixes: 3c0d9c635ae2 ("gpiolib: cdev: support GPIO_V2_GET_LINE_IOCTL and GPIO_V2_LINE_GET_VALUES_IOCTL")
Reported-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c
index 0a33971c964c..6830f668a1b0 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c
@@ -315,13 +315,19 @@ static long linehandle_ioctl_compat(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,

static void linehandle_free(struct linehandle_state *lh)
{
+ struct gpio_device *gdev = lh->gdev;
int i;

- for (i = 0; i < lh->num_descs; i++)
- if (lh->descs[i])
- gpiod_free(lh->descs[i]);
+ for (i = 0; i < lh->num_descs; i++) {
+ if (lh->descs[i]) {
+ down_write(&gdev->sem);
+ if (gdev->chip)
+ gpiod_free(lh->descs[i]);
+ up_write(&gdev->sem);
+ }
+ }
kfree(lh->label);
- gpio_device_put(lh->gdev);
+ gpio_device_put(gdev);
kfree(lh);
}

@@ -1565,17 +1571,21 @@ static ssize_t linereq_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,

static void linereq_free(struct linereq *lr)
{
+ struct gpio_device *gdev = lr->gdev;
unsigned int i;

for (i = 0; i < lr->num_lines; i++) {
if (lr->lines[i].desc) {
edge_detector_stop(&lr->lines[i]);
- gpiod_free(lr->lines[i].desc);
+ down_write(&gdev->sem);
+ if (gdev->chip)
+ gpiod_free(lr->lines[i].desc);
+ up_write(&gdev->sem);
}
}
kfifo_free(&lr->events);
kfree(lr->label);
- gpio_device_put(lr->gdev);
+ gpio_device_put(gdev);
kfree(lr);
}

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