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Mirsad Goran Todorovac 0f68b0f8eb test_firmware: prevent race conditions by a correct implementation of locking
commit 4acfe3dfde685a5a9eaec5555351918e2d7266a1 upstream.

Dan Carpenter spotted a race condition in a couple of situations like
these in the test_firmware driver:

static int test_dev_config_update_u8(const char *buf, size_t size, u8 *cfg)
{
        u8 val;
        int ret;

        ret = kstrtou8(buf, 10, &val);
        if (ret)
                return ret;

        mutex_lock(&test_fw_mutex);
        *(u8 *)cfg = val;
        mutex_unlock(&test_fw_mutex);

        /* Always return full write size even if we didn't consume all */
        return size;
}

static ssize_t config_num_requests_store(struct device *dev,
                                         struct device_attribute *attr,
                                         const char *buf, size_t count)
{
        int rc;

        mutex_lock(&test_fw_mutex);
        if (test_fw_config->reqs) {
                pr_err("Must call release_all_firmware prior to changing config\n");
                rc = -EINVAL;
                mutex_unlock(&test_fw_mutex);
                goto out;
        }
        mutex_unlock(&test_fw_mutex);

        rc = test_dev_config_update_u8(buf, count,
                                       &test_fw_config->num_requests);

out:
        return rc;
}

static ssize_t config_read_fw_idx_store(struct device *dev,
                                        struct device_attribute *attr,
                                        const char *buf, size_t count)
{
        return test_dev_config_update_u8(buf, count,
                                         &test_fw_config->read_fw_idx);
}

The function test_dev_config_update_u8() is called from both the locked
and the unlocked context, function config_num_requests_store() and
config_read_fw_idx_store() which can both be called asynchronously as
they are driver's methods, while test_dev_config_update_u8() and siblings
change their argument pointed to by u8 *cfg or similar pointer.

To avoid deadlock on test_fw_mutex, the lock is dropped before calling
test_dev_config_update_u8() and re-acquired within test_dev_config_update_u8()
itself, but alas this creates a race condition.

Having two locks wouldn't assure a race-proof mutual exclusion.

This situation is best avoided by the introduction of a new, unlocked
function __test_dev_config_update_u8() which can be called from the locked
context and reducing test_dev_config_update_u8() to:

static int test_dev_config_update_u8(const char *buf, size_t size, u8 *cfg)
{
        int ret;

        mutex_lock(&test_fw_mutex);
        ret = __test_dev_config_update_u8(buf, size, cfg);
        mutex_unlock(&test_fw_mutex);

        return ret;
}

doing the locking and calling the unlocked primitive, which enables both
locked and unlocked versions without duplication of code.

The similar approach was applied to all functions called from the locked
and the unlocked context, which safely mitigates both deadlocks and race
conditions in the driver.

__test_dev_config_update_bool(), __test_dev_config_update_u8() and
__test_dev_config_update_size_t() unlocked versions of the functions
were introduced to be called from the locked contexts as a workaround
without releasing the main driver's lock and thereof causing a race
condition.

The test_dev_config_update_bool(), test_dev_config_update_u8() and
test_dev_config_update_size_t() locked versions of the functions
are being called from driver methods without the unnecessary multiplying
of the locking and unlocking code for each method, and complicating
the code with saving of the return value across lock.

Fixes: 7feebfa487 ("test_firmware: add support for request_firmware_into_buf")
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Russ Weight <russell.h.weight@intel.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Tianfei Zhang <tianfei.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.4
Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mirsad Goran Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@alu.unizg.hr>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230509084746.48259-1-mirsad.todorovac@alu.unizg.hr
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-08-11 11:53:59 +02:00
arch KVM: s390: fix sthyi error handling 2023-08-11 11:53:55 +02:00
block block/partition: fix signedness issue for Amiga partitions 2023-07-27 08:37:29 +02:00
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crypto KEYS: asymmetric: Copy sig and digest in public_key_verify_signature() 2023-06-21 15:44:08 +02:00
Documentation Documentation: security-bugs.rst: clarify CVE handling 2023-08-11 11:53:52 +02:00
drivers net: usbnet: Fix WARNING in usbnet_start_xmit/usb_submit_urb 2023-08-11 11:53:59 +02:00
fs ext2: Drop fragment support 2023-08-11 11:53:59 +02:00
include driver core: add device probe log helper 2023-08-11 11:53:57 +02:00
init x86/mm: Initialize text poking earlier 2023-08-08 19:56:36 +02:00
ipc
kernel perf: Fix function pointer case 2023-08-11 11:53:54 +02:00
lib test_firmware: prevent race conditions by a correct implementation of locking 2023-08-11 11:53:59 +02:00
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mm mm: make wait_on_page_writeback() wait for multiple pending writebacks 2023-06-28 10:18:42 +02:00
net Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_sock_ready_cb 2023-08-11 11:53:59 +02:00
samples samples/bpf: Fix buffer overflow in tcp_basertt 2023-07-27 08:37:07 +02:00
scripts modpost: fix off by one in is_executable_section() 2023-07-27 08:37:18 +02:00
security keys: Fix linking a duplicate key to a keyring's assoc_array 2023-08-11 11:53:47 +02:00
sound ASoC: cs42l51: fix driver to properly autoload with automatic module loading 2023-08-11 11:53:54 +02:00
tools perf test uprobe_from_different_cu: Skip if there is no gcc 2023-08-11 11:53:55 +02:00
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virt KVM: Destroy target device if coalesced MMIO unregistration fails 2023-03-11 16:44:01 +01:00
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