On 7/15/20 6:57 AM, krzysztof.sobota@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Krzysztof Sobota <krzysztof.sobota@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:13:42 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] watchdog: initialize device before misc_register
>
> When watchdog device is being registered, it calls misc_register that
> makes watchdog available for systemd to open. This is a data race
> scenario, because when device is open it may still have device struct
> not initialized - this in turn causes a crash. This patch moves
> device initialization before misc_register call and it solves the
> problem printed below.
>
A cleaner fix would probably be to move misc device registration
after cdev registration, but then handling misc device registration
failures would be much more complicated. With that,
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1 at lib/kobject.c:612 kobject_get+0x50/0x54
> kobject: '(null)' ((ptrval)): is not initialized, yet kobject_get() is being called.
> Modules linked in: k2_reset_status(O) davinci_wdt(+) sfn_platform_hwbcn(O) fsmddg_sfn(O) clk_misc_mmap(O) clk_sw_bcn(O) fsp_reset(O) cma_mod(O) slave_sup_notif(O) fpga_master(O) latency(O+) evnotify(O) enable_arm_pmu(O) xge(O) rio_mport_cdev br_netfilter bridge stp llc nvrd_checksum(O) ipv6
> CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G O 4.19.113-g2579778-fsm4_k2 #1
> Hardware name: Keystone
> [<c02126c4>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c020da94>] (show_stack+0x18/0x1c)
> [<c020da94>] (show_stack) from [<c07f87d8>] (dump_stack+0xb4/0xe8)
> [<c07f87d8>] (dump_stack) from [<c0221f70>] (__warn+0xfc/0x114)
> [<c0221f70>] (__warn) from [<c0221fd8>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x50/0x74)
> [<c0221fd8>] (warn_slowpath_fmt) from [<c07fd394>] (kobject_get+0x50/0x54)
> [<c07fd394>] (kobject_get) from [<c0602ce8>] (get_device+0x1c/0x24)
> [<c0602ce8>] (get_device) from [<c06961e0>] (watchdog_open+0x90/0xf0)
> [<c06961e0>] (watchdog_open) from [<c06001dc>] (misc_open+0x130/0x17c)
> [<c06001dc>] (misc_open) from [<c0388228>] (chrdev_open+0xec/0x1a8)
> [<c0388228>] (chrdev_open) from [<c037fa98>] (do_dentry_open+0x204/0x3cc)
> [<c037fa98>] (do_dentry_open) from [<c0391e2c>] (path_openat+0x330/0x1148)
> [<c0391e2c>] (path_openat) from [<c0394518>] (do_filp_open+0x78/0xec)
> [<c0394518>] (do_filp_open) from [<c0381100>] (do_sys_open+0x130/0x1f4)
> [<c0381100>] (do_sys_open) from [<c0201000>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x28)
> Exception stack(0xd2ceffa8 to 0xd2cefff0)
> ffa0: b6f69968 00000000 ffffff9c b6ebd210 000a0001 00000000
> ffc0: b6f69968 00000000 00000000 00000142 fffffffd ffffffff 00b65530 bed7bb78
> ffe0: 00000142 bed7ba70 b6cc2503 b6cc41d6
> ---[ end trace 7b16eb105513974f ]---
>
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1 at lib/refcount.c:153 kobject_get+0x24/0x54
> refcount_t: increment on 0; use-after-free.
> Modules linked in: k2_reset_status(O) davinci_wdt(+) sfn_platform_hwbcn(O) fsmddg_sfn(O) clk_misc_mmap(O) clk_sw_bcn(O) fsp_reset(O) cma_mod(O) slave_sup_notif(O) fpga_master(O) latency(O+) evnotify(O) enable_arm_pmu(O) xge(O) rio_mport_cdev br_netfilter bridge stp llc nvrd_checksum(O) ipv6
> CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G W O 4.19.113-g2579778-fsm4_k2 #1
> Hardware name: Keystone
> [<c02126c4>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c020da94>] (show_stack+0x18/0x1c)
> [<c020da94>] (show_stack) from [<c07f87d8>] (dump_stack+0xb4/0xe8)
> [<c07f87d8>] (dump_stack) from [<c0221f70>] (__warn+0xfc/0x114)
> [<c0221f70>] (__warn) from [<c0221fd8>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x50/0x74)
> [<c0221fd8>] (warn_slowpath_fmt) from [<c07fd368>] (kobject_get+0x24/0x54)
> [<c07fd368>] (kobject_get) from [<c0602ce8>] (get_device+0x1c/0x24)
> [<c0602ce8>] (get_device) from [<c06961e0>] (watchdog_open+0x90/0xf0)
> [<c06961e0>] (watchdog_open) from [<c06001dc>] (misc_open+0x130/0x17c)
> [<c06001dc>] (misc_open) from [<c0388228>] (chrdev_open+0xec/0x1a8)
> [<c0388228>] (chrdev_open) from [<c037fa98>] (do_dentry_open+0x204/0x3cc)
> [<c037fa98>] (do_dentry_open) from [<c0391e2c>] (path_openat+0x330/0x1148)
> [<c0391e2c>] (path_openat) from [<c0394518>] (do_filp_open+0x78/0xec)
> [<c0394518>] (do_filp_open) from [<c0381100>] (do_sys_open+0x130/0x1f4)
> [<c0381100>] (do_sys_open) from [<c0201000>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x28)
> Exception stack(0xd2ceffa8 to 0xd2cefff0)
> ffa0: b6f69968 00000000 ffffff9c b6ebd210 000a0001 00000000
> ffc0: b6f69968 00000000 00000000 00000142 fffffffd ffffffff 00b65530 bed7bb78
> ffe0: 00000142 bed7ba70 b6cc2503 b6cc41d6
> ---[ end trace 7b16eb1055139750 ]---
>
> Fixes: 72139dfa2464 ("watchdog: Fix the race between the release of watchdog_core_data and cdev")
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Sobota <krzysztof.sobota@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Change-Id: I3b85f615d67ab5b8dc6c5c2dc42efd236d502d09
> ---
> drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c | 18 +++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
> index 10b2090f3e5e..1c322caecf7f 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
> @@ -947,6 +947,15 @@ static int watchdog_cdev_register(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
> if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(watchdog_kworker))
> return -ENODEV;
>
> + device_initialize(&wd_data->dev);
> + wd_data->dev.devt = MKDEV(MAJOR(watchdog_devt), wdd->id);
> + wd_data->dev.class = &watchdog_class;
> + wd_data->dev.parent = wdd->parent;
> + wd_data->dev.groups = wdd->groups;
> + wd_data->dev.release = watchdog_core_data_release;
> + dev_set_drvdata(&wd_data->dev, wdd);
> + dev_set_name(&wd_data->dev, "watchdog%d", wdd->id);
> +
> kthread_init_work(&wd_data->work, watchdog_ping_work);
> hrtimer_init(&wd_data->timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
> wd_data->timer.function = watchdog_timer_expired;
> @@ -967,15 +976,6 @@ static int watchdog_cdev_register(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
> }
> }
>
> - device_initialize(&wd_data->dev);
> - wd_data->dev.devt = MKDEV(MAJOR(watchdog_devt), wdd->id);
> - wd_data->dev.class = &watchdog_class;
> - wd_data->dev.parent = wdd->parent;
> - wd_data->dev.groups = wdd->groups;
> - wd_data->dev.release = watchdog_core_data_release;
> - dev_set_drvdata(&wd_data->dev, wdd);
> - dev_set_name(&wd_data->dev, "watchdog%d", wdd->id);
> -
> /* Fill in the data structures */
> cdev_init(&wd_data->cdev, &watchdog_fops);
>
> --
> 2.14.0
>
