linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Input: uinput: Avoid Object-Already-Free with a global lock

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Date:   Tue, 23 Apr 2019 12:06:12 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     "dmitry.torokhov@...il.com" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:     Mukesh Ojha <mojha@...eaurora.org>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@...eaurora.org>,
        Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@...-t.net>,
        Martin Kepplinger <martink@...teo.de>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Input: uinput: Avoid Object-Already-Free with a
 global lock

On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 08:49:44AM +0000, dmitry.torokhov@...il.com wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 12:51:13PM +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote:

> > I have taken care this case from ioctl and release point of view.
> > 
> > Even if the release gets called first it will make the
> > file->private_data=NULL.
> > and further call to ioctl will not be a problem as the check is already
> > there.
> 
> Al, do we have any protections in VFS layer from userspace hanging onto
> a file descriptor and calling ioctl() on it even as another thread
> calls close() on the same fd?
> 
> Should the issue be solved by individual drivers, or more careful
> accounting for currently running operations is needed at VFS layer?

Neither.  An overlap of ->release() and ->ioctl() is possible only
if you've got memory corruption somewhere.

close() overlapping ioctl() is certainly possible, and won't trigger
that at all - sys_ioctl() holds onto reference to struct file, so
its refcount won't reach zero until we are done with it.