On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 04:03:18PM +0000, Wei Yongjun 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Applied to mhi-fixes!
Thanks,
Mani
> ---
> drivers/bus/mhi/pci_generic.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/bus/mhi/pci_generic.c b/drivers/bus/mhi/pci_generic.c
> index 7c810f02a2ef..5b19e877d17a 100644
> --- a/drivers/bus/mhi/pci_generic.c
> +++ b/drivers/bus/mhi/pci_generic.c
> @@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ static void mhi_pci_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> struct mhi_pci_device *mhi_pdev = pci_get_drvdata(pdev);
> struct mhi_controller *mhi_cntrl = &mhi_pdev->mhi_cntrl;
>
> - del_timer(&mhi_pdev->health_check_timer);
> + del_timer_sync(&mhi_pdev->health_check_timer);
> cancel_work_sync(&mhi_pdev->recovery_work);
>
> if (test_and_clear_bit(MHI_PCI_DEV_STARTED, &mhi_pdev->status)) {
>
