[PATCH 6.1 22/64] bus: fsl-mc: fix use-after-free in driver_override_show()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-17T20:46:12Z

From: Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit 148891e95014b5dc5878acefa57f1940c281c431 ]

The driver_override_show() function reads the driver_override string
without holding the device_lock. However, driver_override_store() uses
driver_set_override(), which modifies and frees the string while holding
the device_lock.

This can result in a concurrent use-after-free if the string is freed
by the store function while being read by the show function.

Fix this by holding the device_lock around the read operation.

Fixes: 1f86a00c1159 ("bus/fsl-mc: add support for 'driver_override' in the mc-bus")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251202174438.12658-1-hanguidong02@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c
+++ b/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c
@@ -201,8 +201,12 @@ static ssize_t driver_override_show(stru
struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
struct fsl_mc_device *mc_dev = to_fsl_mc_device(dev);
+ ssize_t len;

- return sysfs_emit(buf, "%s\n", mc_dev->driver_override);
+ device_lock(dev);
+ len = sysfs_emit(buf, "%s\n", mc_dev->driver_override);
+ device_unlock(dev);
+ return len;
}
static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(driver_override);