From: Sven Van Asbroeck Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 18:58:24 +0000 (-0400) Subject: iio: adc: xilinx: fix potential use-after-free on remove X-Git-Tag: v4.9.177~46 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d1a8691fff95cdb100739281854b0afafb8c57df;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git iio: adc: xilinx: fix potential use-after-free on remove [ Upstream commit 62039b6aef63380ba7a37c113bbaeee8a55c5342 ] When cancel_delayed_work() returns, the delayed work may still be running. This means that the core could potentially free the private structure (struct xadc) while the delayed work is still using it. This is a potential use-after-free. Fix by calling cancel_delayed_work_sync(), which waits for any residual work to finish before returning. Signed-off-by: Sven Van Asbroeck Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/xilinx-xadc-core.c b/drivers/iio/adc/xilinx-xadc-core.c index 56cf5907a5f01..143894a315d9b 100644 --- a/drivers/iio/adc/xilinx-xadc-core.c +++ b/drivers/iio/adc/xilinx-xadc-core.c @@ -1299,7 +1299,7 @@ static int xadc_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) } free_irq(irq, indio_dev); clk_disable_unprepare(xadc->clk); - cancel_delayed_work(&xadc->zynq_unmask_work); + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&xadc->zynq_unmask_work); kfree(xadc->data); kfree(indio_dev->channels);