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    drivers: core: synchronize really_probe() and dev_uevent() · c0a40097
    Dirk Behme authored
    Synchronize the dev->driver usage in really_probe() and dev_uevent().
    These can run in different threads, what can result in the following
    race condition for dev->driver uninitialization:
    
    Thread #1:
    ==========
    
    really_probe() {
    ...
    probe_failed:
    ...
    device_unbind_cleanup(dev) {
        ...
        dev->driver = NULL;   // <= Failed probe sets dev->driver to NULL
        ...
        }
    ...
    }
    
    Thread #2:
    ==========
    
    dev_uevent() {
    ...
    if (dev->driver)
          // If dev->driver is NULLed from really_probe() from here on,
          // after above check, the system crashes
          add_uevent_var(env, "DRIVER=%s", dev->driver->name);
    ...
    }
    
    really_probe() holds the lock, already. So nothing needs to be done
    there. dev_uevent() is called with lock held, often, too. But not
    always. What implies that we can't add any locking in dev_uevent()
    itself. So fix this race by adding the lock to the non-protected
    path. This is the path where above race is observed:
    
     dev_uevent+0x235/0x380
     uevent_show+0x10c/0x1f0  <= Add lock here
     dev_attr_show+0x3a/0xa0
     sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x17c/0x250
     kernfs_seq_show+0x7c/0x90
     seq_read_iter+0x2d7/0x940
     kernfs_fop_read_iter+0xc6/0x310
     vfs_read+0x5bc/0x6b0
     ksys_read+0xeb/0x1b0
     __x64_sys_read+0x42/0x50
     x64_sys_call+0x27ad/0x2d30
     do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x1d0
     entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
    
    Similar cases are reported by syzkaller in
    
    https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ffa8143439596313a85a
    
    But these are regarding the *initialization* of dev->driver
    
    dev->driver = drv;
    
    As this switches dev->driver to non-NULL these reports can be considered
    to be false-positives (which should be "fixed" by this commit, as well,
    though).
    
    The same issue was reported and tried to be fixed back in 2015 in
    
    https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1421259054-2574-1-git-send-email-a.sangwan@samsung.com/
    
    already.
    
    Fixes: 239378f1 ("Driver core: add uevent vars for devices of a class")
    Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
    Cc: syzbot+ffa8143439596313a85a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
    Cc: Ashish Sangwan <a.sangwan@samsung.com>
    Cc: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240513050634.3964461-1-dirk.behme@de.bosch.comSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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