watchdog: Fix possible use-after-free in wdt_startup()
authorZou Wei <zou_wei@huawei.com>
Tue, 11 May 2021 07:01:35 +0000 (15:01 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:05:47 +0000 (16:05 +0200)
commita397cb4576fc2fc802562418b3a50b8f67d60d31
tree764d365c7ae07bfed19aa8a22e11ad768fc9d2f1
parent96c0bf09125e5d58597453b842bb8daa4dfb5e60
watchdog: Fix possible use-after-free in wdt_startup()

[ Upstream commit c08a6b31e4917034f0ed0cb457c3bb209576f542 ]

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@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Zou Wei <zou_wei@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1620716495-108352-1-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>
drivers/watchdog/sbc60xxwdt.c