This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled watchdog: sc520_wdt: Fix possible use-after-free in wdt_turnoff() to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: watchdog-sc520_wdt-fix-possible-use-after-free-in-wd.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 03bc6db6ee12641a6e5ad08b4f7aebc8c07531ed Author: Zou Wei <zou_wei@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue May 11 15:04:51 2021 +0800 watchdog: sc520_wdt: Fix possible use-after-free in wdt_turnoff() [ Upstream commit 90b7c141132244e8e49a34a4c1e445cce33e07f4 ] This module'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. Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Zou Wei <zou_wei@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1620716691-108460-1-git-send-email-zou_wei@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/sc520_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/sc520_wdt.c index 6aadb56e7faa..809ebcaef51d 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/sc520_wdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/sc520_wdt.c @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ static int wdt_startup(void) static int wdt_turnoff(void) { /* Stop the timer */ - del_timer(&timer); + del_timer_sync(&timer); /* Stop the watchdog */ wdt_config(0);