This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
pps: Fix a use-after free bug when unregistering a source.
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
pps-fix-a-use-after-free-bug-when-unregistering-a-source.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From d953e0e837e65ecc1ddaa4f9560f7925878a0de6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: George Spelvin <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:27:20 -0500
Subject: pps: Fix a use-after free bug when unregistering a source.
From: George Spelvin <[email protected]>
commit d953e0e837e65ecc1ddaa4f9560f7925878a0de6 upstream.
Remove the cdev from the system (with cdev_del) *before* deallocating it
(in pps_device_destruct, called via kobject_put from device_destroy).
Also prevent deallocating a device with open file handles.
A better long-term fix is probably to remove the cdev from the pps_device
entirely, and instead have all devices reference one global cdev. Then
the deallocation ordering becomes simpler.
But that's more complex and invasive change, so we leave that
for later.
Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/pps/pps.c | 14 ++++++++++----
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/pps/pps.c
+++ b/drivers/pps/pps.c
@@ -247,12 +247,15 @@ static int pps_cdev_open(struct inode *i
struct pps_device *pps = container_of(inode->i_cdev,
struct pps_device, cdev);
file->private_data = pps;
-
+ kobject_get(&pps->dev->kobj);
return 0;
}
static int pps_cdev_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
+ struct pps_device *pps = container_of(inode->i_cdev,
+ struct pps_device, cdev);
+ kobject_put(&pps->dev->kobj);
return 0;
}
@@ -274,8 +277,10 @@ static void pps_device_destruct(struct d
{
struct pps_device *pps = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
- /* release id here to protect others from using it while it's
- * still in use */
+ cdev_del(&pps->cdev);
+
+ /* Now we can release the ID for re-use */
+ pr_debug("deallocating pps%d\n", pps->id);
mutex_lock(&pps_idr_lock);
idr_remove(&pps_idr, pps->id);
mutex_unlock(&pps_idr_lock);
@@ -332,6 +337,7 @@ int pps_register_cdev(struct pps_device
goto del_cdev;
}
+ /* Override the release function with our own */
pps->dev->release = pps_device_destruct;
pr_debug("source %s got cdev (%d:%d)\n", pps->info.name,
@@ -352,9 +358,9 @@ free_idr:
void pps_unregister_cdev(struct pps_device *pps)
{
+ pr_debug("unregistering pps%d\n", pps->id);
pps->lookup_cookie = NULL;
device_destroy(pps_class, pps->dev->devt);
- cdev_del(&pps->cdev);
}
/*
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.8/pps-fix-a-use-after-free-bug-when-unregistering-a-source.patch
queue-3.8/pps-use-pps_lookup_dev-to-reduce-ldisc-coupling.patch
queue-3.8/pps-add-pps_lookup_dev-function.patch
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