Use spinlocks to deal with workers introducing a wrapper bigben_schedule_work(), and several spinlock checks. Otherwise, bigben_set_led() may schedule bigben->worker after the structure has been freed, causing a use-after-free. Fixes: 4eb1b01de5b9 ("HID: hid-bigbenff: fix race condition for scheduled work during removal") Signed-off-by: Pietro Borrello <borrello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hid/hid-bigbenff.c | 18 ++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-bigbenff.c b/drivers/hid/hid-bigbenff.c index b98c5f31c184..9d6560db762b 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hid-bigbenff.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-bigbenff.c @@ -185,6 +185,15 @@ struct bigben_device { struct work_struct worker; }; +static inline void bigben_schedule_work(struct bigben_device *bigben) +{ + unsigned long flags; + + spin_lock_irqsave(&bigben->lock, flags); + if (!bigben->removed) + schedule_work(&bigben->worker); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bigben->lock, flags); +} static void bigben_worker(struct work_struct *work) { @@ -197,9 +206,6 @@ static void bigben_worker(struct work_struct *work) u32 len; unsigned long flags; - if (bigben->removed) - return; - buf = hid_alloc_report_buf(bigben->report, GFP_KERNEL); if (!buf) return; @@ -285,7 +291,7 @@ static int hid_bigben_play_effect(struct input_dev *dev, void *data, bigben->work_ff = true; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bigben->lock, flags); - schedule_work(&bigben->worker); + bigben_schedule_work(bigben); } return 0; @@ -320,7 +326,7 @@ static void bigben_set_led(struct led_classdev *led, if (work) { bigben->work_led = true; - schedule_work(&bigben->worker); + bigben_schedule_work(bigben); } return; } @@ -450,7 +456,7 @@ static int bigben_probe(struct hid_device *hid, bigben->left_motor_force = 0; bigben->work_led = true; bigben->work_ff = true; - schedule_work(&bigben->worker); + bigben_schedule_work(bigben); hid_info(hid, "LED and force feedback support for BigBen gamepad\n"); -- 2.25.1