netdev - [PATCH v1 net] nfc: nci: Fix race between rfkill and nci_unregister

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Message-ID: <20260126071359.2693214-1-kuniyu@google.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:13:15 +0000
From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...gle.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Ilan Elias <ilane@...com>, 
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...gle.com>, Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuni1840@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	syzbot+f9c5fd1a0874f9069dce@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH v1 net] nfc: nci: Fix race between rfkill and nci_unregister_device().

syzbot reported the splat below [0] without a repro.

It indicates that struct nci_dev.cmd_wq had been destroyed before
nci_close_device() was called via rfkill.

nci_dev.cmd_wq is only destroyed in nci_unregister_device(), which
(I think) was called from virtual_ncidev_close() when syzbot close()d
an fd of virtual_ncidev.

The problem is that nci_unregister_device() destroys nci_dev.cmd_wq
first and then calls nfc_unregister_device(), which removes the
device from rfkill by rfkill_unregister().

So, the device is still visible via rfkill even after nci_dev.cmd_wq
is destroyed.

Let's call nfc_unregister_device() first in nci_unregister_device().

[0]:
DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(1)
WARNING: kernel/locking/lockdep.c:238 at hlock_class kernel/locking/lockdep.c:238 [inline], CPU#0: syz.0.8675/6349
WARNING: kernel/locking/lockdep.c:238 at check_wait_context kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4854 [inline], CPU#0: syz.0.8675/6349
WARNING: kernel/locking/lockdep.c:238 at __lock_acquire+0x39d/0x2cf0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5187, CPU#0: syz.0.8675/6349
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6349 Comm: syz.0.8675 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/13/2026
RIP: 0010:hlock_class kernel/locking/lockdep.c:238 [inline]
RIP: 0010:check_wait_context kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4854 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0x3a4/0x2cf0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5187
Code: 18 00 4c 8b 74 24 08 75 27 90 e8 17 f2 fc 02 85 c0 74 1c 83 3d 50 e0 4e 0e 00 75 13 48 8d 3d 43 f7 51 0e 48 c7 c6 8b 3a de 8d <67> 48 0f b9 3a 90 31 c0 0f b6 98 c4 00 00 00 41 8b 45 20 25 ff 1f
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000c767680 EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000040000 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc90013080000 RSI: ffffffff8dde3a8b RDI: ffffffff8ff24ca0
RBP: 0000000000000003 R08: ffffffff8fef35a3 R09: 1ffffffff1fde6b4
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1fde6b5 R12: 00000000000012a2
R13: ffff888030338ba8 R14: ffff888030338000 R15: ffff888030338b30
FS:  00007fa5995f66c0(0000) GS:ffff8881256f8000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f7e72f842d0 CR3: 00000000485a0000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 lock_acquire+0x106/0x330 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5868
 touch_wq_lockdep_map+0xcb/0x180 kernel/workqueue.c:3940
 __flush_workqueue+0x14b/0x14f0 kernel/workqueue.c:3982
 nci_close_device+0x302/0x630 net/nfc/nci/core.c:567
 nci_dev_down+0x3b/0x50 net/nfc/nci/core.c:639
 nfc_dev_down+0x152/0x290 net/nfc/core.c:161
 nfc_rfkill_set_block+0x2d/0x100 net/nfc/core.c:179
 rfkill_set_block+0x1d2/0x440 net/rfkill/core.c:346
 rfkill_fop_write+0x461/0x5a0 net/rfkill/core.c:1301
 vfs_write+0x29a/0xb90 fs/read_write.c:684
 ksys_write+0x150/0x270 fs/read_write.c:738
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xe2/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fa59b39acb9
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fa5995f6028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa59b615fa0 RCX: 00007fa59b39acb9
RDX: 0000000000000008 RSI: 0000200000000080 RDI: 0000000000000007
RBP: 00007fa59b408bf7 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fa59b616038 R14: 00007fa59b615fa0 R15: 00007ffc82218788
 </TASK>

Fixes: 6a2968aaf50c ("NFC: basic NCI protocol implementation")
Reported-by: syzbot+f9c5fd1a0874f9069dce@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/695e7f56.050a0220.1c677c.036c.GAE@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...gle.com>
---
 net/nfc/nci/core.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/nfc/nci/core.c b/net/nfc/nci/core.c
index fc921cd2cdff..df8a2f97026f 100644
--- a/net/nfc/nci/core.c
+++ b/net/nfc/nci/core.c
@@ -1303,6 +1303,8 @@ void nci_unregister_device(struct nci_dev *ndev)
 {
 	struct nci_conn_info *conn_info, *n;
 
+	nfc_unregister_device(ndev->nfc_dev);
+
 	/* This set_bit is not protected with specialized barrier,
 	 * However, it is fine because the mutex_lock(&ndev->req_lock);
 	 * in nci_close_device() will help to emit one.
@@ -1319,8 +1321,6 @@ void nci_unregister_device(struct nci_dev *ndev)
 		list_del(&conn_info->list);
 		/* conn_info is allocated with devm_kzalloc */
 	}
-
-	nfc_unregister_device(ndev->nfc_dev);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(nci_unregister_device);
 
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