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From: Danish Khateeb <danishkhateeb03@gmail.com>
To: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>, Benjamin Tissoires <bentiss@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	sashiko-reviews@lists.linux.dev,
	Danish Khateeb <danishkhateeb03@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HID: corsair: cancel worker after unregistering LED, not before
Date: Fri,  4 Sep 2026 11:13:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260904161354.159922-1-danishkhateeb03@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260904145330.BD9E41F00A3D@smtp.kernel.org>

> - [High] Reordering `led_classdev_unregister()` before
> `cancel_work_sync()` reintroduces a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use
> (TOCTOU) Use-After-Free race condition on `led->cdev.dev` inside the
> worker threads.

You are right. Please drop v1.

There are two races here and each ordering fixes only one. Cancelling
first leaves led_classdev_unregister() free to re-arm the worker via
led_set_brightness(LED_OFF), so the structure is freed while still
linked into the worklist. Cancelling last leaves a worker that has
already tested led->removed free to dereference led->cdev.dev after
device_unregister() has freed it -- the race eb51c9f8cb4f fixed. v1 was
in effect a revert of it, which I should have caught: that race is
spelled out in the changelog of the commit in my own Fixes: tag.

v2 uses disable_work_sync(), which waits for a running worker and makes
the later schedule_work() fail rather than queue, closing both. It also
converts the fail_sysfs error path, which still had the second race.

My reproducer only covered the re-arm race; the other is a few
instructions wide and I could not trigger it. v2 says so.

  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-04 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-04 14:36 [PATCH] HID: corsair: cancel worker after unregistering LED, not before Danish Khateeb
2026-09-04 14:53 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-04 16:13   ` Danish Khateeb [this message]
2026-09-04 16:15 ` [PATCH v2] HID: corsair: use disable_work_sync() to tear down the LED workers Danish Khateeb

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