macintosh/mac_hid: fix race condition in mac_hid_toggle_emumouse
The following warning appears when running syzkaller, and this issue also
exists in the mainline code.
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list_add double add: new=
ffffffffa57eee28, prev=
ffffffffa57eee28, next=
ffffffffa5e63100.
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1491 at lib/list_debug.c:35 __list_add_valid_or_report+0xf7/0x130
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 1491 Comm: syz.1.28 Not tainted 6.6.0+ #3
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__list_add_valid_or_report+0xf7/0x130
RSP: 0018:
ff1100010dfb7b78 EFLAGS:
00010282
RAX:
0000000000000000 RBX:
ffffffffa57eee18 RCX:
ffffffff97fc9817
RDX:
0000000000040000 RSI:
ffa0000002383000 RDI:
0000000000000001
RBP:
ffffffffa57eee28 R08:
0000000000000001 R09:
ffe21c0021bf6f2c
R10:
0000000000000001 R11:
6464615f7473696c R12:
ffffffffa5e63100
R13:
ffffffffa57eee28 R14:
ffffffffa57eee28 R15:
ff1100010dfb7d48
FS:
00007fb14398b640(0000) GS:
ff11000119600000(0000) knlGS:
0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0:
0000000080050033
CR2:
0000000000000000 CR3:
000000010d096005 CR4:
0000000000773ef0
DR0:
0000000000000000 DR1:
0000000000000000 DR2:
0000000000000000
DR3:
0000000000000000 DR6:
00000000fffe0ff0 DR7:
0000000000000400
PKRU:
80000000
Call Trace:
<TASK>
input_register_handler+0xb3/0x210
mac_hid_start_emulation+0x1c5/0x290
mac_hid_toggle_emumouse+0x20a/0x240
proc_sys_call_handler+0x4c2/0x6e0
new_sync_write+0x1b1/0x2d0
vfs_write+0x709/0x950
ksys_write+0x12a/0x250
do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x110
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0xe2
The WARNING occurs when two processes concurrently write to the mac-hid
emulation sysctl, causing a race condition in mac_hid_toggle_emumouse().
Both processes read old_val=0, then both try to register the input handler,
leading to a double list_add of the same handler.
CPU0 CPU1
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vfs_write() //write 1 vfs_write() //write 1
proc_sys_write() proc_sys_write()
mac_hid_toggle_emumouse() mac_hid_toggle_emumouse()
old_val = *valp // old_val=0
old_val = *valp // old_val=0
mutex_lock_killable()
proc_dointvec() // *valp=1
mac_hid_start_emulation()
input_register_handler()
mutex_unlock()
mutex_lock_killable()
proc_dointvec()
mac_hid_start_emulation()
input_register_handler() //Trigger Warning
mutex_unlock()
Fix this by moving the old_val read inside the mutex lock region.
Fixes: 99b089c3c38a ("Input: Mac button emulation - implement as an input filter")
Signed-off-by: Long Li <leo.lilong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250819091035.2263329-1-leo.lilong@huaweicloud.com