[PATCH 6.18 455/752] rpmsg: core: fix race in driver_override_show() and use core helper

Sasha Levin
2026-02-28T17:54:31Z

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

[ Upstream commit 42023d4b6d2661a40ee2dcf7e1a3528a35c638ca ]

The driver_override_show function reads the driver_override string
without holding the device_lock. However, the store function modifies
and frees the string while holding the device_lock. This creates a race
condition where the string can be freed by the store function while
being read by the show function, leading to a use-after-free.

To fix this, replace the rpmsg_string_attr macro with explicit show and
store functions. The new driver_override_store uses the standard
driver_set_override helper. Since the introduction of
driver_set_override, the comments in include/linux/rpmsg.h have stated
that this helper must be used to set or clear driver_override, but the
implementation was not updated until now.

Because driver_set_override modifies and frees the string while holding
the device_lock, the new driver_override_show now correctly holds the
device_lock during the read operation to prevent the race.

Additionally, since rpmsg_string_attr has only ever been used for
driver_override, removing the macro simplifies the code.

Fixes: 39e47767ec9b ("rpmsg: Add driver_override device attribute for rpmsg_device")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251202174948.12693-1-hanguidong02@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c | 66 ++++++++++++++++----------------------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c b/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c
index 5d661681a9b6c..96964745065b1 100644
--- a/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c
+++ b/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c
@@ -352,50 +352,38 @@ field##_show(struct device *dev, \
} \
static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(field);

-#define rpmsg_string_attr(field, member) \
-static ssize_t \
-field##_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, \
- const char *buf, size_t sz) \
-{ \
- struct rpmsg_device *rpdev = to_rpmsg_device(dev); \
- const char *old; \
- char *new; \
- \
- new = kstrndup(buf, sz, GFP_KERNEL); \
- if (!new) \
- return -ENOMEM; \
- new[strcspn(new, "\n")] = '\0'; \
- \
- device_lock(dev); \
- old = rpdev->member; \
- if (strlen(new)) { \
- rpdev->member = new; \
- } else { \
- kfree(new); \
- rpdev->member = NULL; \
- } \
- device_unlock(dev); \
- \
- kfree(old); \
- \
- return sz; \
-} \
-static ssize_t \
-field##_show(struct device *dev, \
- struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf) \
-{ \
- struct rpmsg_device *rpdev = to_rpmsg_device(dev); \
- \
- return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", rpdev->member); \
-} \
-static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(field)
-
/* for more info, see Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-rpmsg */
rpmsg_show_attr(name, id.name, "%s\n");
rpmsg_show_attr(src, src, "0x%x\n");
rpmsg_show_attr(dst, dst, "0x%x\n");
rpmsg_show_attr(announce, announce ? "true" : "false", "%s\n");
-rpmsg_string_attr(driver_override, driver_override);
+
+static ssize_t driver_override_store(struct device *dev,
+ struct device_attribute *attr,
+ const char *buf, size_t count)
+{
+ struct rpmsg_device *rpdev = to_rpmsg_device(dev);
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = driver_set_override(dev, &rpdev->driver_override, buf, count);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ return count;
+}
+
+static ssize_t driver_override_show(struct device *dev,
+ struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+ struct rpmsg_device *rpdev = to_rpmsg_device(dev);
+ ssize_t len;
+
+ device_lock(dev);
+ len = sysfs_emit(buf, "%s\n", rpdev->driver_override);
+ device_unlock(dev);
+ return len;
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(driver_override);

static ssize_t modalias_show(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
--
2.51.0