watchdog: Fix possible use-after-free by calling del_timer_sync()

This driver's remove path calls del_timer(). However, that function
does not wait until the timer handler finishes. This means that the
timer handler may still be running after the driver's remove function
has finished, which would result in a use-after-free.

Fix by calling del_timer_sync(), which makes sure the timer handler
has finished, and unable to re-schedule itself.

Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Zou Wei <zou_wei@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@mleia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1620802676-19701-1-git-send-email-zou_wei@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
This commit is contained in:
Zou Wei 2021-05-12 14:57:56 +08:00 committed by Wim Van Sebroeck
parent 90b7c14113
commit d0212f095a
2 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ static int lpc18xx_wdt_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
struct lpc18xx_wdt_dev *lpc18xx_wdt = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "I quit now, hardware will probably reboot!\n");
del_timer(&lpc18xx_wdt->timer);
del_timer_sync(&lpc18xx_wdt->timer);
return 0;
}

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@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static void wdt_startup(void)
static void wdt_turnoff(void)
{
/* Stop the timer */
del_timer(&timer);
del_timer_sync(&timer);
wdt_change(WDT_DISABLE);