From: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@linaro.org>
To: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Cc: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@kernel.org>,
Hemant Kumar <hemantk@codeaurora.org>,
linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] bus: mhi: pci_generic: Fix possible use-after-free in mhi_pci_remove()
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 17:38:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMZdPi9c7L7_4Pzr82zfiYOXp128gnwMEpSex7S9-tQ=jWvNWA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210413160318.2003699-1-weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 17:54, Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com> wrote:
>
> This driver's remove path calls del_timer(). However, that function
> does not wait until the timer handler finishes. This means that the
> timer handler may still be running after the driver's remove function
> has finished, which would result in a use-after-free.
>
> Fix by calling del_timer_sync(), which makes sure the timer handler
> has finished, and unable to re-schedule itself.
>
> Fixes: 8562d4fe34a3 ("mhi: pci_generic: Add health-check")
> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@linaro.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-16 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-13 16:03 [PATCH -next] bus: mhi: pci_generic: Fix possible use-after-free in mhi_pci_remove() Wei Yongjun
2021-04-16 15:38 ` Loic Poulain [this message]
2021-05-03 22:41 ` Hemant Kumar
2021-05-21 12:17 ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2021-05-21 12:19 ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2021-05-21 17:37 ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
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