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mtd: maps: pcmciamtd: fix possible sleep-in-atomic-context bugs in pcmciamtd_set_vpp()

Message ID 20191218140552.12249-1-baijiaju1990@gmail.com
State New, archived
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Series mtd: maps: pcmciamtd: fix possible sleep-in-atomic-context bugs in pcmciamtd_set_vpp() | expand

Commit Message

Jia-Ju Bai Dec. 18, 2019, 2:05 p.m. UTC
The driver may sleep while holding a spinlock.
The function call path (from bottom to top) in Linux 4.19 is:

drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c, 312:
	mutex_lock in pcmcia_fixup_vpp
drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c, 309: 
	pcmcia_fixup_vpp in pcmciamtd_set_vpp
drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c, 306: 
	_raw_spin_lock_irqsave in pcmciamtd_set_vpp

drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c, 312:
	mutex_lock in pcmcia_fixup_vpp
drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c, 312: 
	pcmcia_fixup_vpp in pcmciamtd_set_vpp
drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c, 306: 
	_raw_spin_lock_irqsave in pcmciamtd_set_vp

mutex_lock() may sleep at runtime.

To fix these bugs, pcmcia_fixup_vpp() is called without holding the
spinlock.

These bugs are found by a static analysis tool STCheck written by
myself.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Dominik Brodowski Dec. 18, 2019, 5:28 p.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 10:05:52PM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> The driver may sleep while holding a spinlock.
> The function call path (from bottom to top) in Linux 4.19 is:
> 
> drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c, 312:
> 	mutex_lock in pcmcia_fixup_vpp
> drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c, 309: 
> 	pcmcia_fixup_vpp in pcmciamtd_set_vpp
> drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c, 306: 
> 	_raw_spin_lock_irqsave in pcmciamtd_set_vpp
> 
> drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c, 312:
> 	mutex_lock in pcmcia_fixup_vpp
> drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c, 312: 
> 	pcmcia_fixup_vpp in pcmciamtd_set_vpp
> drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c, 306: 
> 	_raw_spin_lock_irqsave in pcmciamtd_set_vp
> 
> mutex_lock() may sleep at runtime.

Thanks for noticing this issue.

> To fix these bugs, pcmcia_fixup_vpp() is called without holding the
> spinlock.

I don't think that this is the right approach here -- we lose the protection
against races in calls to pcmcia_fixup_vpp(). Instead, we should change the
spinlock to a mutex, which seems to be sufficient here. Could you prepare
such a patch, please?

Thanks,
	Dominik
Jia-Ju Bai Dec. 19, 2019, 2:32 a.m. UTC | #2
On 2019/12/19 1:28, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 10:05:52PM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
>> The driver may sleep while holding a spinlock.
>> The function call path (from bottom to top) in Linux 4.19 is:
>>
>> drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c, 312:
>> 	mutex_lock in pcmcia_fixup_vpp
>> drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c, 309:
>> 	pcmcia_fixup_vpp in pcmciamtd_set_vpp
>> drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c, 306:
>> 	_raw_spin_lock_irqsave in pcmciamtd_set_vpp
>>
>> drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c, 312:
>> 	mutex_lock in pcmcia_fixup_vpp
>> drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c, 312:
>> 	pcmcia_fixup_vpp in pcmciamtd_set_vpp
>> drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c, 306:
>> 	_raw_spin_lock_irqsave in pcmciamtd_set_vp
>>
>> mutex_lock() may sleep at runtime.
> Thanks for noticing this issue.
>
>> To fix these bugs, pcmcia_fixup_vpp() is called without holding the
>> spinlock.
> I don't think that this is the right approach here -- we lose the protection
> against races in calls to pcmcia_fixup_vpp(). Instead, we should change the
> spinlock to a mutex, which seems to be sufficient here. Could you prepare
> such a patch, please?

Okay, thanks for the advice :)
I will send a new patch.


Best wishes,
Jia-Ju Bai
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c b/drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c
index 70bb403f69f7..d2cd1708aa49 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c
@@ -301,17 +301,23 @@  static void pcmciamtd_set_vpp(struct map_info *map, int on)
 	struct pcmciamtd_dev *dev = (struct pcmciamtd_dev *)map->map_priv_1;
 	struct pcmcia_device *link = dev->p_dev;
 	unsigned long flags;
+	int fixup_flag = 0;
 
 	pr_debug("dev = %p on = %d vpp = %d\n\n", dev, on, dev->vpp);
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&pcmcia_vpp_lock, flags);
 	if (on) {
 		if (++pcmcia_vpp_refcnt == 1)   /* first nested 'on' */
-			pcmcia_fixup_vpp(link, dev->vpp);
+			fixup_flag = 1;
 	} else {
 		if (--pcmcia_vpp_refcnt == 0)   /* last nested 'off' */
-			pcmcia_fixup_vpp(link, 0);
+			fixup_flag = 2;
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pcmcia_vpp_lock, flags);
+
+	if (fixup_flag == 1)
+		pcmcia_fixup_vpp(link, dev->vpp);
+	else if (fixup_flag == 2)
+		pcmcia_fixup_vpp(link, 0);
 }