staging: comedi: comedi_test: fix race when cancelling command

Éric Piel reported a kernel oops in the "comedi_test" module.  It was a
NULL pointer dereference within `waveform_ai_interrupt()` (actually a
timer function) that sometimes occurred when a running asynchronous
command is cancelled (either by the `COMEDI_CANCEL` ioctl or by closing
the device file).

This seems to be a race between the caller of `waveform_ai_cancel()`
which on return from that function goes and tears down the running
command, and the timer function which uses the command.  In particular,
`async->cmd.chanlist` gets freed (and the pointer set to NULL) by
`do_become_nonbusy()` in "comedi_fops.c" but a previously scheduled
`waveform_ai_interrupt()` timer function will dereference that pointer
regardless, leading to the oops.

Fix it by replacing the `del_timer()` call in `waveform_ai_cancel()`
with `del_timer_sync()`.

Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Reported-by: Éric Piel <piel@delmic.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/comedi_test.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/comedi_test.c
index fb3d09323ba145c2460408971459ee29f39bd63b..01de996239f1e6142f07f9851cc840e8ddc14a75 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/comedi_test.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/comedi_test.c
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ static int waveform_ai_cancel(struct comedi_device *dev,
        struct waveform_private *devpriv = dev->private;
 
        devpriv->timer_running = 0;
-       del_timer(&devpriv->timer);
+       del_timer_sync(&devpriv->timer);
        return 0;
 }