From: Dingisoul <dingiso.kernel@gmail.com>
To: joshua.crofts1@gmail.com
Cc: andy@kernel.org, dingiso.kernel@gmail.com, dlechner@baylibre.com,
jic23@kernel.org, linusw@kernel.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org,
nuno.sa@analog.com
Subject: Re: [BUG] iio: gyro: mpu3050: use-after-free via trigger left on iio_trigger_list after unbind
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:09:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261012200904.1853361-1-dingiso.kernel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261011190522.79da3607@systembl0wer>
Hi Joshua, Sashiko,
Sashiko's concern is really about not being able to tell whether the
trigger was ever actually registered before calling
iio_trigger_unregister(). There's a precedent for this exact bug class:
commit 3c5eed894efd9 ("iio: temperature: tmp006: use
devm_iio_trigger_register") hit the same
devm_iio_trigger_alloc()-but-plain-register() mismatch in tmp006, and
fixed it by switching to devm_iio_trigger_register() instead of adding a
manual unregister call.
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3c5eed894efd9
devm_iio_trigger_register() only installs its cleanup action if
iio_trigger_register() actually succeeds:
int devm_iio_trigger_register(struct device *dev,
struct iio_trigger *trig_info)
{
int ret;
ret = iio_trigger_register(trig_info);
if (ret)
return ret;
return devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, devm_iio_trigger_unreg, trig_info);
}
so it can never unregister a trigger that was never registered -- no
flag/pointer tracking needed.
Suggested fix, in mpu3050_trigger_probe():
- ret = iio_trigger_register(mpu3050->trig);
+ ret = devm_iio_trigger_register(&indio_dev->dev, mpu3050->trig);
(same scope devm_iio_trigger_alloc() already uses a few lines above).
With this, both iio_trigger_unregister() calls in your patch can be
dropped.
I rebuilt with just this one-line change and reran my reproducer:
the trigger registers normally on probe, and after delete_device
it's actually gone instead of left dangling, so the attack just
gets -EINVAL instead of a UAF. No KASAN report, no warnings.
Happy to test further revisions.
Best,
Dingisoul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-12 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-10 20:36 [BUG] iio: gyro: mpu3050: use-after-free via trigger left on iio_trigger_list after unbind Dingisoul
2026-10-11 17:05 ` Joshua Crofts
2026-10-12 20:09 ` Dingisoul [this message]
2026-10-13 11:30 ` Joshua Crofts
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