The driver is calling framebuffer_release() in its .remove callback, but
this will cause the struct fb_info to be freed too early. Since it could
be that a reference is still hold to it if user-space opened the fbdev.
This would lead to a use-after-free error if the framebuffer device was
unregistered but later a user-space process tries to close the fbdev fd.
To prevent this, move the framebuffer_release() call to fb_ops.fb_destroy
instead of doing it in the driver's .remove callback.
Strictly speaking, the code flow in the driver is still wrong because all
the hardware cleanupd (i.e: iounmap) should be done in .remove while the
software cleanup (i.e: releasing the framebuffer) should be done in the
.fb_destroy handler. But this at least makes to match the behavior before
commit 27599aacbaef ("fbdev: Hot-unplug firmware fb devices on forced removal").
Fixes: 27599aacbaef ("fbdev: Hot-unplug firmware fb devices on forced removal")
Suggested-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v3:
- Only move framebuffer_release() and don't do any other change
(Daniel Vetter).
Changes in v2:
- Also do the change for vesafb (Thomas Zimmermann).
drivers/video/fbdev/vesafb.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/vesafb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/vesafb.c
index df6de5a9dd4c..e25e8de5ff67 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/vesafb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/vesafb.c
@@ -179,6 +179,10 @@ static int vesafb_setcolreg(unsigned regno, unsigned red, unsigned green,
return err;
}
+/*
+ * fb_ops.fb_destroy is called by the last put_fb_info() call at the end
+ * of unregister_framebuffer() or fb_release(). Do any cleanup here.
+ */
static void vesafb_destroy(struct fb_info *info)
{
struct vesafb_par *par = info->par;
@@ -188,6 +192,8 @@ static void vesafb_destroy(struct fb_info *info)
if (info->screen_base)
iounmap(info->screen_base);
release_mem_region(info->apertures->ranges[0].base, info->apertures->ranges[0].size);
+
+ framebuffer_release(info);
}
static struct fb_ops vesafb_ops = {
@@ -484,10 +490,10 @@ static int vesafb_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct fb_info *info = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
+ /* vesafb_destroy takes care of info cleanup */
unregister_framebuffer(info);
if (((struct vesafb_par *)(info->par))->region)
release_region(0x3c0, 32);
- framebuffer_release(info);
return 0;
}
--
2.35.1
