From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz , Guenter Roeck , Wim Van Sebroeck Subject: [ 076/102] watchdog: Fix race condition in registration code Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 14:36:31 -0700 Message-Id: <20130517213252.311871344@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20130517213244.277411019@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130517213244.277411019@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Guenter Roeck commit 60403f7a4d9368d187f79cba5e4672d01df37574 upstream. A race condition exists when registering the first watchdog device. Sequence of events: - watchdog_register_device calls watchdog_dev_register - watchdog_dev_register creates the watchdog misc device by calling misc_register. At that time, the matching character device (/dev/watchdog0) does not yet exist, and old_wdd is not set either. - Userspace gets an event and opens /dev/watchdog - watchdog_open is called and sets wdd = old_wdd, which is still NULL, and tries to dereference it. This causes the kernel to panic. Seen with systemd trying to open /dev/watchdog immediately after it was created. Reported-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Tested-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c @@ -523,6 +523,7 @@ int watchdog_dev_register(struct watchdo int err, devno; if (watchdog->id == 0) { + old_wdd = watchdog; watchdog_miscdev.parent = watchdog->parent; err = misc_register(&watchdog_miscdev); if (err != 0) { @@ -531,9 +532,9 @@ int watchdog_dev_register(struct watchdo if (err == -EBUSY) pr_err("%s: a legacy watchdog module is probably present.\n", watchdog->info->identity); + old_wdd = NULL; return err; } - old_wdd = watchdog; } /* Fill in the data structures */