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From: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
To: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org,
	Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>,
	Fabrizio Castro <fabrizio.castro@bp.renesas.com>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] watchdog: core: fix null pointer dereference when releasing cdev
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:13:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180828101348.12443-2-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180828101348.12443-1-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>

watchdog_stop() calls watchdog_update_worker() which needs a valid
wdd->wd_data pointer. So, when unregistering the cdev, clear the
pointers after we call watchdog_stop(), not before.

Fixes: bb292ac1c602 ("watchdog: Introduce watchdog_stop_on_unregister helper")
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
---
 drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
index ffbdc4642ea5..f6c24b22b37c 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
@@ -1019,16 +1019,16 @@ static void watchdog_cdev_unregister(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
 		old_wd_data = NULL;
 	}
 
-	mutex_lock(&wd_data->lock);
-	wd_data->wdd = NULL;
-	wdd->wd_data = NULL;
-	mutex_unlock(&wd_data->lock);
-
 	if (watchdog_active(wdd) &&
 	    test_bit(WDOG_STOP_ON_UNREGISTER, &wdd->status)) {
 		watchdog_stop(wdd);
 	}
 
+	mutex_lock(&wd_data->lock);
+	wd_data->wdd = NULL;
+	wdd->wd_data = NULL;
+	mutex_unlock(&wd_data->lock);
+
 	hrtimer_cancel(&wd_data->timer);
 	kthread_cancel_work_sync(&wd_data->work);
 
-- 
2.11.0

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-28 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-28 10:13 [PATCH 0/2] watchdog: fix OOPS when using stop_on_unregister and use it for R-Car Wolfram Sang
2018-08-28 10:13 ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
2018-08-28 13:57   ` [PATCH 1/2] watchdog: core: fix null pointer dereference when releasing cdev Guenter Roeck
2018-09-03 13:54   ` Fabrizio Castro
2018-08-28 10:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] watchdog: renesas_wdt: stop when unregistering Wolfram Sang
2018-08-28 13:57   ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-03 13:56   ` Fabrizio Castro

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