[PATCH 7.1 060/228] gpio: sloppy-logic-analyzer: fix use-after-free via debugfs trigger on unbind

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.patches,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
7.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Cengiz Can <[email protected]>

commit 44f3468a0aef1aabdad551898ab7cfa2a9d20e99 upstream.

The "trigger" debugfs file has a hand-rolled ->write handler
(trigger_write()) that dereferences the per-device gpio_la_poll_priv. The
file is created with debugfs_create_file_unsafe(), and the handler never
takes a debugfs reference. Nothing keeps the object alive while the
handler runs.

priv is allocated with devm_kzalloc(). devres frees it when the platform
device is unbound. debugfs_create_file_unsafe() installs no full_proxy
wrapper, so debugfs_remove_recursive() in gpio_la_poll_remove() does not
wait for an in-flight trigger_write(). The blob_lock taken there does not
help, because trigger_write() never takes it. A write that races an unbind
therefore writes into freed memory:

  trigger_write()                  gpio_la_poll_remove()
    priv = m->private
    buf = memdup_user()  [may sleep]
                                     mutex_lock(&priv->blob_lock)
                                     debugfs_remove_recursive()  [no wait]
                                     mutex_unlock(&priv->blob_lock)
                                   (remove returns; devres frees priv)
    priv->trig_data = buf   <-- use-after-free write
    priv->trig_len  = count

The race is reachable by root via
/sys/bus/platform/drivers/gpio-sloppy-logic-analyzer/unbind.

Create "trigger" with debugfs_create_file() instead. Its full_proxy
wrapper makes debugfs_remove_recursive() drain any in-flight ->write
before it returns.

The use-after-free is confirmed under KASAN with a minimal reproducer of
the same debugfs_create_file_unsafe() plus devm_kzalloc() pattern
(available on request); it produces a slab-use-after-free write in the
handler.

Fixes: 7828b7bbbf20 ("gpio: add sloppy logic analyzer using polling")
Cc: [email protected]
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.8
Signed-off-by: Cengiz Can <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/gpio/gpio-sloppy-logic-analyzer.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-sloppy-logic-analyzer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-sloppy-logic-analyzer.c
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ static int gpio_la_poll_probe(struct pla
 	debugfs_create_ulong("delay_ns_acquisition", 0400, priv->debug_dir, &priv->acq_delay);
 	debugfs_create_file_unsafe("buf_size", 0600, priv->debug_dir, priv, &fops_buf_size);
 	debugfs_create_file_unsafe("capture", 0200, priv->debug_dir, priv, &fops_capture);
-	debugfs_create_file_unsafe("trigger", 0200, priv->debug_dir, priv, &fops_trigger);
+	debugfs_create_file("trigger", 0200, priv->debug_dir, priv, &fops_trigger);
 
 	return 0;
 }
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