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From: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
To: linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Bjorn Andersson <andersson@kernel.org>,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] hwspinlock: Convert to XArray
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:20:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <amZ6FReXAVUCO-pr@ninjato> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260718163024.1726-2-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>


> [Severity: High]
> This is a pre-existing issue, but does dereferencing hwlock->bank->dev under
> rcu_read_lock() and later accessing hwlock->bank->num_locks after dropping it
> in of_hwspin_lock_get_id() lead to a Use-After-Free?
> 
> While the XArray (and previously Radix Tree) lookup yields a pointer to
> hwlock, the hwlock structure is managed by devres (e.g. devm_kzalloc) which
> frees the memory synchronously on device unbind without waiting for an RCU
> grace period.

My next hwspinlock series will tackle the plenty of UAF issues.

> [Severity: High]
> This is a pre-existing issue, but does aborting here lead to dangling
> pointers in the XArray when devres subsequently frees the bank memory?

Ditto.

> > +	xas_unlock(&xas);
> >  
> > +	ret = hwspin_lock_prepare(hwlock);
> > +
> > +	xas_lock(&xas);
> > +	if (ret < 0) {
> > +		hwlock = NULL;
> > +		xas_set_mark(&xas, HWSPINLOCK_UNUSED);
> 
> [Severity: High]
> Can reusing the un-reset XA_STATE after dropping the XArray lock and sleeping
> in hwspin_lock_request_specific() lead to a Use-After-Free?
> 
> This function drops the XArray lock and calls hwspin_lock_prepare(), which can
> sleep via pm_runtime_get_sync(). While sleeping, concurrent modifications to
> the XArray can cause internal nodes to be reallocated or freed.
> 
> Upon waking, if hwspin_lock_prepare() fails, the function reacquires the lock
> and calls xas_set_mark(&xas, HWSPINLOCK_UNUSED) using the stale xas iterator,
> which might dereference the potentially freed xas.xa_node.

I fixed this in v5 to be sent soon.


  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-26 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-18 16:30 [PATCH v4 0/3] hwspinlock: convert to XArray and add debug capabilities Wolfram Sang
2026-07-18 16:30 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] hwspinlock: Convert to XArray Wolfram Sang
2026-07-26 21:20   ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
2026-07-18 16:30 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] hwspinlock: add list of mailboxes to debugfs Wolfram Sang
2026-07-26 21:20   ` Wolfram Sang
2026-07-18 16:30 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] hwspinlock: add low level debug capabilities Wolfram Sang
2026-07-26 21:26   ` Wolfram Sang

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