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 14:02:14 +0000 (16:02 +0200)
commit4c05dac488a660fe2925c047ecb119e7afaaeb1e
tree36e292a33511b63d3d8c5064573ce4c0dc12549f
parentb3c41ea5bc34d8c7b19e230d80e0e555c6f5057d
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