From: Cengiz Can <cengiz.can@canonical.com>
To: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>,
Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@kernel.org>,
linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] gpio: sloppy-logic-analyzer: fix use-after-free via debugfs trigger on unbind
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:02:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260730220258.358169-2-cengiz.can@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260730220258.358169-1-cengiz.can@canonical.com>
The "trigger" debugfs file has a hand-rolled ->write handler
(trigger_write()) that dereferences the per-device gpio_la_poll_priv. The
file is created with debugfs_create_file_unsafe(), and the handler never
takes a debugfs reference. Nothing keeps the object alive while the
handler runs.
priv is allocated with devm_kzalloc(). devres frees it when the platform
device is unbound. debugfs_create_file_unsafe() installs no full_proxy
wrapper, so debugfs_remove_recursive() in gpio_la_poll_remove() does not
wait for an in-flight trigger_write(). The blob_lock taken there does not
help, because trigger_write() never takes it. A write that races an unbind
therefore writes into freed memory:
trigger_write() gpio_la_poll_remove()
priv = m->private
buf = memdup_user() [may sleep]
mutex_lock(&priv->blob_lock)
debugfs_remove_recursive() [no wait]
mutex_unlock(&priv->blob_lock)
(remove returns; devres frees priv)
priv->trig_data = buf <-- use-after-free write
priv->trig_len = count
The race is reachable by root via
/sys/bus/platform/drivers/gpio-sloppy-logic-analyzer/unbind.
Create "trigger" with debugfs_create_file() instead. Its full_proxy
wrapper makes debugfs_remove_recursive() drain any in-flight ->write
before it returns.
The use-after-free is confirmed under KASAN with a minimal reproducer of
the same debugfs_create_file_unsafe() plus devm_kzalloc() pattern
(available on request); it produces a slab-use-after-free write in the
handler.
Fixes: 7828b7bbbf20 ("gpio: add sloppy logic analyzer using polling")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.8
Signed-off-by: Cengiz Can <cengiz.can@canonical.com>
---
drivers/gpio/gpio-sloppy-logic-analyzer.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-sloppy-logic-analyzer.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-sloppy-logic-analyzer.c
index 2bbd308ca08e..c356cf2ed688 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-sloppy-logic-analyzer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-sloppy-logic-analyzer.c
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ static int gpio_la_poll_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
debugfs_create_ulong("delay_ns_acquisition", 0400, priv->debug_dir, &priv->acq_delay);
debugfs_create_file_unsafe("buf_size", 0600, priv->debug_dir, priv, &fops_buf_size);
debugfs_create_file_unsafe("capture", 0200, priv->debug_dir, priv, &fops_capture);
- debugfs_create_file_unsafe("trigger", 0200, priv->debug_dir, priv, &fops_trigger);
+ debugfs_create_file("trigger", 0200, priv->debug_dir, priv, &fops_trigger);
return 0;
}
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-30 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-30 22:02 [PATCH v2 0/2] gpio: sloppy-logic-analyzer: fix debugfs UAF on unbind Cengiz Can
2026-07-30 22:02 ` Cengiz Can [this message]
2026-08-01 20:34 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] gpio: sloppy-logic-analyzer: fix use-after-free via debugfs trigger " Wolfram Sang
2026-07-30 22:02 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] gpio: sloppy-logic-analyzer: use debugfs_create_file() for buf_size and capture Cengiz Can
2026-08-01 20:36 ` Wolfram Sang
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