From: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
To: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com>,
Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>, Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>,
Frank Li <Frank.Li@kernel.org>
Cc: dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, Xunlei Pang <xlpang@linux.alibaba.com>,
oliver.yang@linux.alibaba.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] dmaengine: idxd: Fix use-after-free of idxd_wq
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:05:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8733uql4qu.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tsstwt1p.fsf@intel.com>
Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com> writes:
> Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com> writes:
>
>> We found an idxd_wq use-after-free issue with kasan
>> when remove the idxd PCI device:
>>
>> BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in idxd_device_drv_remove+0x1f8/0x240 [idxd]
>> Call Trace:
>> <TASK>
>> dump_stack_lvl+0x32/0x50
>> print_address_description.constprop.0+0x2c/0x390
>> ? idxd_device_drv_remove+0x1f8/0x240 [idxd]
>> print_report+0xba/0x280
>> ? kasan_addr_to_slab+0x9/0xa0
>> ? idxd_device_drv_remove+0x1f8/0x240 [idxd]
>> kasan_report+0xab/0xe0
>> ? idxd_device_drv_remove+0x1f8/0x240 [idxd]
>> idxd_device_drv_remove+0x1f8/0x240 [idxd]
>> device_release_driver_internal+0x391/0x560
>> bus_remove_device+0x1f5/0x3f0
>> device_del+0x392/0x990
>> ? __pfx_device_del+0x10/0x10
>> ? kobject_cleanup+0x117/0x360
>> ? idxd_unregister_devices+0x229/0x320 [idxd]
>> device_unregister+0x13/0xa0
>> idxd_remove+0x4f/0x1b0 [idxd]
>> pci_device_remove+0xa7/0x1d0
>> device_release_driver_internal+0x391/0x560
>> ? pci_pme_active+0x1e/0x450
>> pci_stop_bus_device+0x10a/0x150
>> pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device_locked+0x16/0x30
>> remove_store+0xcf/0xe0
>>
>> Freed by task 15535:
>> kasan_save_stack+0x1c/0x40
>> kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
>> kasan_save_free_info+0x27/0x40
>> ____kasan_slab_free+0x171/0x240
>> slab_free_freelist_hook+0xde/0x190
>> __kmem_cache_free+0x19e/0x310
>> device_release+0x98/0x210
>> kobject_cleanup+0x102/0x360
>> idxd_unregister_devices+0xb3/0x320 [idxd]
>> dxd_remove+0x3f/0x1b0 [idxd]
>> pci_device_remove+0xa7/0x1d0
>> device_release_driver_internal+0x391/0x560
>> pci_stop_bus_device+0x10a/0x150
>> pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device_locked+0x16/0x30
>> remove_store+0xcf/0xe0
>>
>> In the idxd_remove() flow, when execution reaches
>> idxd_unregister_devices(), all idxd_wq instances have already been
>> freed. Subsequently, when device_unregister(idxd_confdev(idxd)) is
>> executed, it calls into idxd_device_drv_remove() which accesses the
>> already-freed idxd_wq. This fix resolves the issue by calling
>> device_release_driver() before idxd_unregister_devices().
>>
>> Fixes: 98da0106aac0d ("dmanegine: idxd: fix resource free ordering on driver removal")
>> Co-developed-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com>
>> ---
>
> All questions that I had after the AI review are handled:
>
> Acked-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
>
Messing with /sys/bus/pci/drivers/idxd/unbind I was able to reproduce
this issue without KASAN (KASAN makes it 100% reproducible), so:
Tested-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
Cheers,
--
Vinicius
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-30 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-15 9:50 [PATCH v2] dmaengine: idxd: Fix use-after-free of idxd_wq Guixin Liu
2026-04-22 21:34 ` Vinicius Costa Gomes
2026-04-23 9:01 ` Guixin Liu
2026-04-23 18:54 ` Vinicius Costa Gomes
2026-04-24 5:43 ` Guixin Liu
2026-04-24 5:56 ` Guixin Liu
2026-04-29 2:55 ` Guixin Liu
2026-04-29 17:54 ` Vinicius Costa Gomes
2026-06-17 12:27 ` Guixin Liu
2026-09-30 23:05 ` Vinicius Costa Gomes [this message]
2026-09-20 8:28 ` Guixin Liu
2026-09-24 3:48 ` Guixin Liu
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