watchdog: Fix possible use-after-free by calling del_timer_sync()
authorZou Wei <zou_wei@huawei.com>
Wed, 12 May 2021 06:57:56 +0000 (14:57 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:16:11 +0000 (16:16 +0200)
commitecd620e0fb1ff7f78fdb593379b2e6938c99707a
tree0d817ea373686f8a656ab451c5a734c8ba94c2d8
parent522e75ed63f67e815d4ec0deace67df22d9ce78e
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>
drivers/watchdog/lpc18xx_wdt.c
drivers/watchdog/w83877f_wdt.c