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Ian Abbott fe67122ba7 comedi: fix race between polling and detaching
commit 35b6fc51c666fc96355be5cd633ed0fe4ccf68b2 upstream.

syzbot reports a use-after-free in comedi in the below link, which is
due to comedi gladly removing the allocated async area even though poll
requests are still active on the wait_queue_head inside of it. This can
cause a use-after-free when the poll entries are later triggered or
removed, as the memory for the wait_queue_head has been freed.  We need
to check there are no tasks queued on any of the subdevices' wait queues
before allowing the device to be detached by the `COMEDI_DEVCONFIG`
ioctl.

Tasks will read-lock `dev->attach_lock` before adding themselves to the
subdevice wait queue, so fix the problem in the `COMEDI_DEVCONFIG` ioctl
handler by write-locking `dev->attach_lock` before checking that all of
the subdevices are safe to be deleted.  This includes testing for any
sleepers on the subdevices' wait queues.  It remains locked until the
device has been detached.  This requires the `comedi_device_detach()`
function to be refactored slightly, moving the bulk of it into new
function `comedi_device_detach_locked()`.

Note that the refactor of `comedi_device_detach()` results in
`comedi_device_cancel_all()` now being called while `dev->attach_lock`
is write-locked, which wasn't the case previously, but that does not
matter.

Thanks to Jens Axboe for diagnosing the problem and co-developing this
patch.

Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Fixes: 2f3fdcd7ce ("staging: comedi: add rw_semaphore to protect against device detachment")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/687bd5fe.a70a0220.693ce.0091.GAE@google.com/
Reported-by: syzbot+01523a0ae5600aef5895@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=01523a0ae5600aef5895
Co-developed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Tested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250722155316.27432-1-abbotti@mev.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-08-28 16:21:30 +02:00
arch MIPS: Don't crash in stack_top() for tasks without ABI or vDSO 2025-08-28 16:21:28 +02:00
block block: fix 'kmem_cache of name 'bio-108' already exists' 2025-04-10 14:29:37 +02:00
certs
crypto crypto: algif_hash - fix double free in hash_accept 2025-06-04 14:32:35 +02:00
Documentation Documentation: ACPI: Fix parent device references 2025-08-28 16:21:23 +02:00
drivers comedi: fix race between polling and detaching 2025-08-28 16:21:30 +02:00
fs pNFS: Fix uninited ptr deref in block/scsi layout 2025-08-28 16:21:29 +02:00
include uapi: in6: restore visibility of most IPv6 socket options 2025-08-28 16:21:27 +02:00
init bpfilter: match bit size of bpfilter_umh to that of the kernel 2025-07-17 18:24:51 +02:00
ipc ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU 2025-06-27 11:02:52 +01:00
kernel rcu: Protect ->defer_qs_iw_pending from data race 2025-08-28 16:21:26 +02:00
lib lib: test_objagg: Set error message in check_expect_hints_stats() 2025-07-17 18:24:56 +02:00
LICENSES
mm mm/huge_memory: fix dereferencing invalid pmd migration entry 2025-06-27 11:02:58 +01:00
net net: ncsi: Fix buffer overflow in fetching version id 2025-08-28 16:21:27 +02:00
samples samples: mei: Fix building on musl libc 2025-08-28 16:21:19 +02:00
scripts kconfig: lxdialog: fix 'space' to (de)select options 2025-08-28 16:21:29 +02:00
security securityfs: don't pin dentries twice, once is enough... 2025-08-28 16:21:24 +02:00
sound ASoC: codecs: rt5640: Retry DEVICE_ID verification 2025-08-28 16:21:26 +02:00
tools ktest.pl: Prevent recursion of default variable options 2025-08-28 16:21:26 +02:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-07-17 18:24:51 +02:00
virt KVM: arm64: Ignore PMCNTENSET_EL0 while checking for overflow status 2024-12-19 18:05:04 +01:00
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MAINTAINERS platform: Add Surface platform directory 2025-06-27 11:02:56 +01:00
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