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2025-11-26comedi: Use reference count for asynchronous command functionsIan Abbott
For interrupts from badly behaved hardware (as emulated by Syzbot), it is possible for the Comedi core functions that manage the progress of asynchronous data acquisition to be called from driver ISRs while no asynchronous command has been set up, which can cause problems such as invalid pointer dereferencing or dividing by zero. Change those functions in the Comedi core to use this pattern: if `comedi_get_is_subdevice_running(s)` returns `true` then call a safe version of the function with the same name prefixed with an underscore, followed by a call to `comedi_put_is_subdevice_running(s)`, otherwise take some default action. `comedi_get_is_subdevice_running(s)` returning `true` ensures that the details of the asynchronous command will not be destroyed before the matching call to `comedi_put_is_subdevice_running(s)`. Replace calls to those functions from elsewhere in the Comedi core with calls to the safe versions of the functions. The modified functions are: `comedi_buf_read_alloc()`, `comedi_buf_read_free()`, `comedi_buf_read_n_available()`, `comedi_buf_read_samples()`, `comedi_buf_write_alloc()`, `comedi_buf_write_free()`, `comedi_buf_write_samples()`, `comedi_bytes_per_scan()`, `comedi_event()`, `comedi_handle_events()`, `comedi_inc_scan_progress()`, `comedi_nsamples_left()`, `comedi_nscans_left()`. Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251023133001.8439-3-abbotti@mev.co.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-07-22comedi: fix race between polling and detachingIan Abbott
syzbot reports a use-after-free in comedi in the below link, which is due to comedi gladly removing the allocated async area even though poll requests are still active on the wait_queue_head inside of it. This can cause a use-after-free when the poll entries are later triggered or removed, as the memory for the wait_queue_head has been freed. We need to check there are no tasks queued on any of the subdevices' wait queues before allowing the device to be detached by the `COMEDI_DEVCONFIG` ioctl. Tasks will read-lock `dev->attach_lock` before adding themselves to the subdevice wait queue, so fix the problem in the `COMEDI_DEVCONFIG` ioctl handler by write-locking `dev->attach_lock` before checking that all of the subdevices are safe to be deleted. This includes testing for any sleepers on the subdevices' wait queues. It remains locked until the device has been detached. This requires the `comedi_device_detach()` function to be refactored slightly, moving the bulk of it into new function `comedi_device_detach_locked()`. Note that the refactor of `comedi_device_detach()` results in `comedi_device_cancel_all()` now being called while `dev->attach_lock` is write-locked, which wasn't the case previously, but that does not matter. Thanks to Jens Axboe for diagnosing the problem and co-developing this patch. Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Fixes: 2f3fdcd7ce93 ("staging: comedi: add rw_semaphore to protect against device detachment") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/687bd5fe.a70a0220.693ce.0091.GAE@google.com/ Reported-by: syzbot+01523a0ae5600aef5895@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=01523a0ae5600aef5895 Co-developed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> Tested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250722155316.27432-1-abbotti@mev.co.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-04-15staging: comedi: move out of staging directoryGreg Kroah-Hartman
The comedi code came into the kernel back in 2008, but traces its lifetime to much much earlier. It's been polished and buffed and there's really nothing preventing it from being part of the "real" portion of the kernel. So move it to drivers/comedi/ as it belongs there. Many thanks to the hundreds of developers who did the work to make this happen. Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> Cc: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YHauop4u3sP6lz8j@kroah.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>