linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v1 2/3] max17042_battery: fix potential user-after-free on module unload

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Date:   Tue, 5 Feb 2019 18:21:54 +0100
From:   Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>
To:     Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@...il.com>
Cc:     Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v1 2/3] max17042_battery: fix potential user-after-free on
 module unload

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 09:27:49AM -0500, Sven Van Asbroeck wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 3:27 AM Dmitry Torokhov
> <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > Are there many more instances of this?
> 
> Unfortunately I think so.
> A simple grep brings up a couple of candidates, but I'm sure there are more:
> 
> drivers/regulator/arizona-micsupp.c
> drivers/nfc/port100.c
> drivers/power/supply/max14656_charger_detector.c
> drivers/phy/broadcom/phy-bcm-ns2-usbdrd.c
> 
> > I am unsure if we need
> > devm_init_work() when we can easily do the same in remove() call.
> 
> The devm_init_work() suggestion only addresses the problem for those modules
> that use devm_. The others will need fixes in remove(). But this is not as
> elegant and error-proof as using devm_init_work().
> 
> [...]

I would for sure appreciate a devm_init_work(). There are a lot of
devm_ users in power-supply and this helper would definitely
simplify things.

-- Sebastian

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