watchdog: Fix possible use-after-free by calling del_timer_sync()

[ Upstream commit d0212f095ab56672f6f36aabc605bda205e1e0bf ]

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.

Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Zou Wei <zou_wei@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@mleia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1620802676-19701-1-git-send-email-zou_wei@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Zou Wei 2021-05-12 14:57:56 +08:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 7c56c5508d
commit db222f1477
2 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ static int lpc18xx_wdt_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
struct lpc18xx_wdt_dev *lpc18xx_wdt = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "I quit now, hardware will probably reboot!\n");
del_timer(&lpc18xx_wdt->timer);
del_timer_sync(&lpc18xx_wdt->timer);
return 0;
}

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@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static void wdt_startup(void)
static void wdt_turnoff(void)
{
/* Stop the timer */
del_timer(&timer);
del_timer_sync(&timer);
wdt_change(WDT_DISABLE);