From: Damien Riégel <damien.riegel@silabs.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:00:39 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: greybus: raw: fix use-after-free if write is called after disconnect
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=84265cbd96b97058ef67e3f8be3933667a000835;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git

greybus: raw: fix use-after-free if write is called after disconnect

If a user writes to the chardev after disconnect has been called, the
kernel panics with the following trace (with
CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON=y):

        BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000218
         ...
        Call Trace:
         <TASK>
         gb_operation_create_common+0x61/0x180
         gb_operation_create_flags+0x28/0xa0
         gb_operation_sync_timeout+0x6f/0x100
         raw_write+0x7b/0xc7 [gb_raw]
         vfs_write+0xcf/0x420
         ? task_mm_cid_work+0x136/0x220
         ksys_write+0x63/0xe0
         do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x290
         entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Disconnect calls gb_connection_destroy, which ends up freeing the
connection object. When gb_operation_sync is called in the write file
operations, its gets a freed connection as parameter and the kernel
panics.

The gb_connection_destroy cannot be moved out of the disconnect
function, as the Greybus subsystem expect all connections belonging to a
bundle to be destroyed when disconnect returns.

To prevent this bug, use a rw lock to synchronize access between write
and disconnect. This guarantees that the write function doesn't try
to use a disconnected connection.

Fixes: e806c7fb8e9b ("greybus: raw: add raw greybus kernel driver")
Reviewed-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Damien Riégel <damien.riegel@silabs.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324140039.40001-2-damien.riegel@silabs.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/raw.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/raw.c
index 47a984554681..459aed0f1240 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/greybus/raw.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/raw.c
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ struct gb_raw {
 	struct list_head list;
 	int list_data;
 	struct mutex list_lock;
+	struct rw_semaphore disconnect_lock;
+	bool disconnected;
 	struct cdev cdev;
 	struct device dev;
 };
@@ -200,6 +202,7 @@ static int gb_raw_probe(struct gb_bundle *bundle,
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&raw->list);
 	mutex_init(&raw->list_lock);
+	init_rwsem(&raw->disconnect_lock);
 
 	raw->connection = connection;
 	greybus_set_drvdata(bundle, raw);
@@ -235,6 +238,11 @@ static void gb_raw_disconnect(struct gb_bundle *bundle)
 	struct raw_data *temp;
 
 	cdev_device_del(&raw->cdev, &raw->dev);
+
+	down_write(&raw->disconnect_lock);
+	raw->disconnected = true;
+	up_write(&raw->disconnect_lock);
+
 	gb_connection_disable(connection);
 	gb_connection_destroy(connection);
 
@@ -277,11 +285,22 @@ static ssize_t raw_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 	if (count > MAX_PACKET_SIZE)
 		return -E2BIG;
 
+	down_read(&raw->disconnect_lock);
+
+	if (raw->disconnected) {
+		retval = -ENODEV;
+		goto exit;
+	}
+
 	retval = gb_raw_send(raw, count, buf);
 	if (retval)
-		return retval;
+		goto exit;
 
-	return count;
+	retval = count;
+exit:
+	up_read(&raw->disconnect_lock);
+
+	return retval;
 }
 
 static ssize_t raw_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t count,