From: Jianping Li <jianping.li@oss.qualcomm.com>
To: Srinivas Kandagatla <srini@kernel.org>,
Ekansh Gupta <ekansh.gupta@oss.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Jianping Li <jianping.li@oss.qualcomm.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Thierry Escande <thierry.escande@linaro.org>,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, quic_chennak@quicinc.com
Subject: [PATCH v1 1/3] misc: fastrpc: initialise channel refcount before exposing the misc device
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2026 16:44:45 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261007084447.922-2-jianping.li@oss.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261007084447.922-1-jianping.li@oss.qualcomm.com>
fastrpc_device_register() calls misc_register(), which immediately makes
/dev/fastrpc-<domain> visible to userspace. However, kref_init() on the
channel context refcount only runs after the whole domain switch()
completes, several statements later.
Any process that opens the device in that window reaches
fastrpc_device_open() -> fastrpc_channel_ctx_get() -> kref_get() on a
refcount that has never been initialised and is still zero, which
refcount_t correctly reports as a use-after-free:
refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 760 at lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0x120/0x144
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 760 Comm: adsprpcd
Call trace:
refcount_warn_saturate
fastrpc_device_open [fastrpc]
misc_open
chrdev_open
do_dentry_open
vfs_open
path_openat
do_filp_open
do_sys_openat2
__arm64_sys_openat
This is easy to hit after a subsystem restart, when the DSP daemon
reopens the device as soon as it observes the PD coming back up, racing
with fastrpc_rpmsg_probe() on the rebind path.
Move kref_init() ahead of the device registration so the refcount is
always valid by the time the node is reachable from userspace.
Fixes: f6f9279f2bf0 ("misc: fastrpc: Add Qualcomm fastrpc basic driver model")
Signed-off-by: Jianping Li <jianping.li@oss.qualcomm.com>
---
drivers/misc/fastrpc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c b/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
index af18ff1992ee..05b2e7e4ad3b 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
@@ -2599,6 +2599,7 @@ static int fastrpc_rpmsg_probe(struct rpmsg_device *rpdev)
data->poll_mode_supported = soc_data->poll_mode_supported ||
of_machine_get_match(fastrpc_poll_supported_machines);
+ kref_init(&data->refcount);
switch (domain_id) {
case ADSP_DOMAIN_ID:
case MDSP_DOMAIN_ID:
@@ -2626,7 +2627,6 @@ static int fastrpc_rpmsg_probe(struct rpmsg_device *rpdev)
goto err_free_data;
}
- kref_init(&data->refcount);
atomic_set(&data->ctx_seq, 0);
rdev->dma_mask = &data->dma_mask;
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-07 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-07 8:44 [PATCH v1 0/3] misc: fastrpc: fix UAF and Oops around SSR teardown Jianping Li
2026-10-07 8:44 ` Jianping Li [this message]
2026-10-07 8:59 ` [PATCH v1 1/3] misc: fastrpc: initialise channel refcount before exposing the misc device sashiko-bot
2026-10-07 8:44 ` [PATCH v1 2/3] misc: fastrpc: wake poll-mode waiters on SSR Jianping Li
2026-10-07 8:57 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-07 8:44 ` [PATCH v1 3/3] misc: fastrpc: drain in-flight invokes before tearing down context banks Jianping Li
2026-10-07 8:53 ` sashiko-bot
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