* [PATCH 6.6.y 1/2] driver core: generalize driver_override in struct device
@ 2026-05-20 14:01 David Sauerwein
2026-05-20 14:02 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 2/2] driver core: platform: use generic driver_override infrastructure David Sauerwein
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From: David Sauerwein @ 2026-05-20 14:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: stable
Cc: nh-open-source, Danilo Krummrich, Gui-Dong Han,
Greg Kroah-Hartman, Sasha Levin, David Sauerwein
From: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit cb3d1049f4ea77d5ad93f17d8ac1f2ed4da70501 ]
Currently, there are 12 busses (including platform and PCI) that
duplicate the driver_override logic for their individual devices.
All of them seem to be prone to the bug described in [1].
While this could be solved for every bus individually using a separate
lock, solving this in the driver-core generically results in less (and
cleaner) changes overall.
Thus, move driver_override to struct device, provide corresponding
accessors for busses and handle locking with a separate lock internally.
In particular, add device_set_driver_override(),
device_has_driver_override(), device_match_driver_override() and
generalize the sysfs store() and show() callbacks via a driver_override
feature flag in struct bus_type.
Until all busses have migrated, keep driver_set_override() in place.
Note that we can't use the device lock for the reasons described in [2].
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220789 [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/driver-core/DGRGTIRHA62X.3RY09D9SOK77P@kernel.org/ [2]
Tested-by: Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303115720.48783-2-dakr@kernel.org
[ Use dev->bus instead of sp->bus for consistency; fix commit message to
refer to the struct bus_type's driver_override feature flag. - Danilo ]
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Stable-dep-of: 2b38efc05bf7 ("driver core: platform: use generic driver_override infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Sauerwein <dssauerw@amazon.de>
---
drivers/base/bus.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
drivers/base/core.c | 2 ++
drivers/base/dd.c | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/device.h | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/device/bus.h | 4 +++
5 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c
index b97e13a52c33..ae57df879bca 100644
--- a/drivers/base/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
@@ -463,6 +463,36 @@ int bus_for_each_drv(const struct bus_type *bus, struct device_driver *start,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bus_for_each_drv);
+static ssize_t driver_override_store(struct device *dev,
+ struct device_attribute *attr,
+ const char *buf, size_t count)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = __device_set_driver_override(dev, buf, count);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ return count;
+}
+
+static ssize_t driver_override_show(struct device *dev,
+ struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+ guard(spinlock)(&dev->driver_override.lock);
+ return sysfs_emit(buf, "%s\n", dev->driver_override.name);
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(driver_override);
+
+static struct attribute *driver_override_dev_attrs[] = {
+ &dev_attr_driver_override.attr,
+ NULL,
+};
+
+static const struct attribute_group driver_override_dev_group = {
+ .attrs = driver_override_dev_attrs,
+};
+
/**
* bus_add_device - add device to bus
* @dev: device being added
@@ -496,9 +526,15 @@ int bus_add_device(struct device *dev)
if (error)
goto out_put;
+ if (dev->bus->driver_override) {
+ error = device_add_group(dev, &driver_override_dev_group);
+ if (error)
+ goto out_groups;
+ }
+
error = sysfs_create_link(&sp->devices_kset->kobj, &dev->kobj, dev_name(dev));
if (error)
- goto out_groups;
+ goto out_override;
error = sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &sp->subsys.kobj, "subsystem");
if (error)
@@ -509,6 +545,9 @@ int bus_add_device(struct device *dev)
out_subsys:
sysfs_remove_link(&sp->devices_kset->kobj, dev_name(dev));
+out_override:
+ if (dev->bus->driver_override)
+ device_remove_group(dev, &driver_override_dev_group);
out_groups:
device_remove_groups(dev, sp->bus->dev_groups);
out_put:
@@ -567,6 +606,8 @@ void bus_remove_device(struct device *dev)
sysfs_remove_link(&dev->kobj, "subsystem");
sysfs_remove_link(&sp->devices_kset->kobj, dev_name(dev));
+ if (dev->bus->driver_override)
+ device_remove_group(dev, &driver_override_dev_group);
device_remove_groups(dev, dev->bus->dev_groups);
if (klist_node_attached(&dev->p->knode_bus))
klist_del(&dev->p->knode_bus);
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 3c172e6d3fe0..5048849cb97a 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -2505,6 +2505,7 @@ static void device_release(struct kobject *kobj)
devres_release_all(dev);
kfree(dev->dma_range_map);
+ kfree(dev->driver_override.name);
if (dev->release)
dev->release(dev);
@@ -3153,6 +3154,7 @@ void device_initialize(struct device *dev)
kobject_init(&dev->kobj, &device_ktype);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->dma_pools);
mutex_init(&dev->mutex);
+ spin_lock_init(&dev->driver_override.lock);
lockdep_set_novalidate_class(&dev->mutex);
spin_lock_init(&dev->devres_lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->devres_head);
diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
index d371c3437dc6..44f9d0a06d5b 100644
--- a/drivers/base/dd.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
@@ -380,6 +380,66 @@ static void __exit deferred_probe_exit(void)
}
__exitcall(deferred_probe_exit);
+int __device_set_driver_override(struct device *dev, const char *s, size_t len)
+{
+ const char *new, *old;
+ char *cp;
+
+ if (!s)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ /*
+ * The stored value will be used in sysfs show callback (sysfs_emit()),
+ * which has a length limit of PAGE_SIZE and adds a trailing newline.
+ * Thus we can store one character less to avoid truncation during sysfs
+ * show.
+ */
+ if (len >= (PAGE_SIZE - 1))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ /*
+ * Compute the real length of the string in case userspace sends us a
+ * bunch of \0 characters like python likes to do.
+ */
+ len = strlen(s);
+
+ if (!len) {
+ /* Empty string passed - clear override */
+ spin_lock(&dev->driver_override.lock);
+ old = dev->driver_override.name;
+ dev->driver_override.name = NULL;
+ spin_unlock(&dev->driver_override.lock);
+ kfree(old);
+
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ cp = strnchr(s, len, '\n');
+ if (cp)
+ len = cp - s;
+
+ new = kstrndup(s, len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!new)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ spin_lock(&dev->driver_override.lock);
+ old = dev->driver_override.name;
+ if (cp != s) {
+ dev->driver_override.name = new;
+ spin_unlock(&dev->driver_override.lock);
+ } else {
+ /* "\n" passed - clear override */
+ dev->driver_override.name = NULL;
+ spin_unlock(&dev->driver_override.lock);
+
+ kfree(new);
+ }
+ kfree(old);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__device_set_driver_override);
+
/**
* device_is_bound() - Check if device is bound to a driver
* @dev: device to check
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index 8fb9bd71fcd0..2a9017eec15c 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -643,6 +643,8 @@ enum struct_device_flags {
* on. This shrinks the "Board Support Packages" (BSPs) and
* minimizes board-specific #ifdefs in drivers.
* @driver_data: Private pointer for driver specific info.
+ * @driver_override: Driver name to force a match. Do not touch directly; use
+ * device_set_driver_override() instead.
* @links: Links to suppliers and consumers of this device.
* @power: For device power management.
* See Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst for details.
@@ -735,6 +737,10 @@ struct device {
core doesn't touch it */
void *driver_data; /* Driver data, set and get with
dev_set_drvdata/dev_get_drvdata */
+ struct {
+ const char *name;
+ spinlock_t lock;
+ } driver_override;
struct mutex mutex; /* mutex to synchronize calls to
* its driver.
*/
@@ -882,6 +888,54 @@ struct device_link {
#define kobj_to_dev(__kobj) container_of_const(__kobj, struct device, kobj)
+int __device_set_driver_override(struct device *dev, const char *s, size_t len);
+
+/**
+ * device_set_driver_override() - Helper to set or clear driver override.
+ * @dev: Device to change
+ * @s: NUL-terminated string, new driver name to force a match, pass empty
+ * string to clear it ("" or "\n", where the latter is only for sysfs
+ * interface).
+ *
+ * Helper to set or clear driver override of a device.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0 on success or a negative error code on failure.
+ */
+static inline int device_set_driver_override(struct device *dev, const char *s)
+{
+ return __device_set_driver_override(dev, s, s ? strlen(s) : 0);
+}
+
+/**
+ * device_has_driver_override() - Check if a driver override has been set.
+ * @dev: device to check
+ *
+ * Returns true if a driver override has been set for this device.
+ */
+static inline bool device_has_driver_override(struct device *dev)
+{
+ guard(spinlock)(&dev->driver_override.lock);
+ return !!dev->driver_override.name;
+}
+
+/**
+ * device_match_driver_override() - Match a driver against the device's driver_override.
+ * @dev: device to check
+ * @drv: driver to match against
+ *
+ * Returns > 0 if a driver override is set and matches the given driver, 0 if a
+ * driver override is set but does not match, or < 0 if a driver override is not
+ * set at all.
+ */
+static inline int device_match_driver_override(struct device *dev,
+ const struct device_driver *drv)
+{
+ guard(spinlock)(&dev->driver_override.lock);
+ if (dev->driver_override.name)
+ return !strcmp(dev->driver_override.name, drv->name);
+ return -1;
+}
+
/**
* device_iommu_mapped - Returns true when the device DMA is translated
* by an IOMMU
diff --git a/include/linux/device/bus.h b/include/linux/device/bus.h
index ae10c4322754..d43ce072d747 100644
--- a/include/linux/device/bus.h
+++ b/include/linux/device/bus.h
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ struct fwnode_handle;
* @iommu_ops: IOMMU specific operations for this bus, used to attach IOMMU
* driver implementations to a bus and allow the driver to do
* bus-specific setup
+ * @driver_override: Set to true if this bus supports the driver_override
+ * mechanism, which allows userspace to force a specific
+ * driver to bind to a device via a sysfs attribute.
* @need_parent_lock: When probing or removing a device on this bus, the
* device core should lock the device's parent.
*
@@ -106,6 +109,7 @@ struct bus_type {
const struct iommu_ops *iommu_ops;
+ bool driver_override;
bool need_parent_lock;
};
--
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* [PATCH 6.6.y 2/2] driver core: platform: use generic driver_override infrastructure
2026-05-20 14:01 [PATCH 6.6.y 1/2] driver core: generalize driver_override in struct device David Sauerwein
@ 2026-05-20 14:02 ` David Sauerwein
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From: David Sauerwein @ 2026-05-20 14:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: stable
Cc: nh-open-source, Danilo Krummrich, Gui-Dong Han,
Greg Kroah-Hartman, Sasha Levin, David Sauerwein
From: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit 2b38efc05bf7a8568ec74bfffea0f5cfa62bc01d ]
When a driver is probed through __driver_attach(), the bus' match()
callback is called without the device lock held, thus accessing the
driver_override field without a lock, which can cause a UAF.
Fix this by using the driver-core driver_override infrastructure taking
care of proper locking internally.
Note that calling match() from __driver_attach() without the device lock
held is intentional. [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/driver-core/DGRGTIRHA62X.3RY09D9SOK77P@kernel.org/ [1]
Reported-by: Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@gmail.com>
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220789
Fixes: 3d713e0e382e ("driver core: platform: add device binding path 'driver_override'")
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303115720.48783-5-dakr@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Sauerwein <dssauerw@amazon.de>
---
drivers/base/platform.c | 37 +++++----------------------------
drivers/bus/simple-pm-bus.c | 4 ++--
drivers/clk/imx/clk-scu.c | 3 +--
drivers/slimbus/qcom-ngd-ctrl.c | 6 ++----
include/linux/platform_device.h | 5 -----
sound/soc/samsung/i2s.c | 6 +++---
6 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
index 76bfcba25003..1cc9a876b3cd 100644
--- a/drivers/base/platform.c
+++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
@@ -561,7 +561,6 @@ static void platform_device_release(struct device *dev)
kfree(pa->pdev.dev.platform_data);
kfree(pa->pdev.mfd_cell);
kfree(pa->pdev.resource);
- kfree(pa->pdev.driver_override);
kfree(pa);
}
@@ -1265,38 +1264,9 @@ static ssize_t numa_node_show(struct device *dev,
}
static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(numa_node);
-static ssize_t driver_override_show(struct device *dev,
- struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
-{
- struct platform_device *pdev = to_platform_device(dev);
- ssize_t len;
-
- device_lock(dev);
- len = sysfs_emit(buf, "%s\n", pdev->driver_override);
- device_unlock(dev);
-
- return len;
-}
-
-static ssize_t driver_override_store(struct device *dev,
- struct device_attribute *attr,
- const char *buf, size_t count)
-{
- struct platform_device *pdev = to_platform_device(dev);
- int ret;
-
- ret = driver_set_override(dev, &pdev->driver_override, buf, count);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
-
- return count;
-}
-static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(driver_override);
-
static struct attribute *platform_dev_attrs[] = {
&dev_attr_modalias.attr,
&dev_attr_numa_node.attr,
- &dev_attr_driver_override.attr,
NULL,
};
@@ -1336,10 +1306,12 @@ static int platform_match(struct device *dev, struct device_driver *drv)
{
struct platform_device *pdev = to_platform_device(dev);
struct platform_driver *pdrv = to_platform_driver(drv);
+ int ret;
/* When driver_override is set, only bind to the matching driver */
- if (pdev->driver_override)
- return !strcmp(pdev->driver_override, drv->name);
+ ret = device_match_driver_override(dev, drv);
+ if (ret >= 0)
+ return ret;
/* Attempt an OF style match first */
if (of_driver_match_device(dev, drv))
@@ -1482,6 +1454,7 @@ static const struct dev_pm_ops platform_dev_pm_ops = {
struct bus_type platform_bus_type = {
.name = "platform",
.dev_groups = platform_dev_groups,
+ .driver_override = true,
.match = platform_match,
.uevent = platform_uevent,
.probe = platform_probe,
diff --git a/drivers/bus/simple-pm-bus.c b/drivers/bus/simple-pm-bus.c
index aafcc481de91..cb71774400d4 100644
--- a/drivers/bus/simple-pm-bus.c
+++ b/drivers/bus/simple-pm-bus.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ static int simple_pm_bus_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
* that's not listed in simple_pm_bus_of_match. We don't want to do any
* of the simple-pm-bus tasks for these devices, so return early.
*/
- if (pdev->driver_override)
+ if (device_has_driver_override(&pdev->dev))
return 0;
match = of_match_device(dev->driver->of_match_table, dev);
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static int simple_pm_bus_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
const void *data = of_device_get_match_data(&pdev->dev);
- if (pdev->driver_override || data)
+ if (device_has_driver_override(&pdev->dev) || data)
return 0;
dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "%s\n", __func__);
diff --git a/drivers/clk/imx/clk-scu.c b/drivers/clk/imx/clk-scu.c
index 564f549ec204..3a68576cdae7 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/imx/clk-scu.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/imx/clk-scu.c
@@ -700,8 +700,7 @@ struct clk_hw *imx_clk_scu_alloc_dev(const char *name,
return ERR_PTR(ret);
}
- ret = driver_set_override(&pdev->dev, &pdev->driver_override,
- "imx-scu-clk", strlen("imx-scu-clk"));
+ ret = device_set_driver_override(&pdev->dev, "imx-scu-clk");
if (ret) {
platform_device_put(pdev);
return ERR_PTR(ret);
diff --git a/drivers/slimbus/qcom-ngd-ctrl.c b/drivers/slimbus/qcom-ngd-ctrl.c
index fe3a96577f31..d0d289c49c8d 100644
--- a/drivers/slimbus/qcom-ngd-ctrl.c
+++ b/drivers/slimbus/qcom-ngd-ctrl.c
@@ -1537,10 +1537,8 @@ static int of_qcom_slim_ngd_register(struct device *parent,
ngd->id = id;
ngd->pdev->dev.parent = parent;
- ret = driver_set_override(&ngd->pdev->dev,
- &ngd->pdev->driver_override,
- QCOM_SLIM_NGD_DRV_NAME,
- strlen(QCOM_SLIM_NGD_DRV_NAME));
+ ret = device_set_driver_override(&ngd->pdev->dev,
+ QCOM_SLIM_NGD_DRV_NAME);
if (ret) {
platform_device_put(ngd->pdev);
kfree(ngd);
diff --git a/include/linux/platform_device.h b/include/linux/platform_device.h
index 7a41c72c1959..8828b0d275d7 100644
--- a/include/linux/platform_device.h
+++ b/include/linux/platform_device.h
@@ -31,11 +31,6 @@ struct platform_device {
struct resource *resource;
const struct platform_device_id *id_entry;
- /*
- * Driver name to force a match. Do not set directly, because core
- * frees it. Use driver_set_override() to set or clear it.
- */
- const char *driver_override;
/* MFD cell pointer */
struct mfd_cell *mfd_cell;
diff --git a/sound/soc/samsung/i2s.c b/sound/soc/samsung/i2s.c
index 3af48c9b5ab7..925782e67673 100644
--- a/sound/soc/samsung/i2s.c
+++ b/sound/soc/samsung/i2s.c
@@ -1364,10 +1364,10 @@ static int i2s_create_secondary_device(struct samsung_i2s_priv *priv)
if (!pdev_sec)
return -ENOMEM;
- pdev_sec->driver_override = kstrdup("samsung-i2s", GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!pdev_sec->driver_override) {
+ ret = device_set_driver_override(&pdev_sec->dev, "samsung-i2s");
+ if (ret) {
platform_device_put(pdev_sec);
- return -ENOMEM;
+ return ret;
}
ret = platform_device_add(pdev_sec);
--
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