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 14:17:52 +0000 (16:17 +0200)
commit8bec568d7518b1504a602ed5376bb322e4dbb270
tree813a6d9aba32463922aa253061accd5139343c8c
parent2aef07017fae21c3d8acea9656b10e3b9c0f1e04
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