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clocksource: mtk: Fix race conditions in probe code

Message ID 1424342493-31391-1-git-send-email-matthias.bgg@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Matthias Brugger Feb. 19, 2015, 10:41 a.m. UTC
We have two race conditions in the probe code which could lead to a null
pointer dereference in the interrupt handler.

The interrupt handler accesses the clockevent device, which may not yet be
registered.

First race condition happens when the interrupt handler gets registered before
the interrupts get disabled. The second race condition happens when the
interrupts get enabled, but the clockevent device is not yet registered.

Fix that by disabling the interrupts before we register the interrupt and enable
the interrupts after the clockevent device got registered.

Reported-by: Gongbae Park <yongbae2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/clocksource/mtk_timer.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Comments

Daniel Lezcano Feb. 24, 2015, 7:16 a.m. UTC | #1
On 02/19/2015 11:41 AM, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> We have two race conditions in the probe code which could lead to a null
> pointer dereference in the interrupt handler.
>
> The interrupt handler accesses the clockevent device, which may not yet be
> registered.
>
> First race condition happens when the interrupt handler gets registered before
> the interrupts get disabled. The second race condition happens when the
> interrupts get enabled, but the clockevent device is not yet registered.
>
> Fix that by disabling the interrupts before we register the interrupt and enable
> the interrupts after the clockevent device got registered.
>
> Reported-by: Gongbae Park <yongbae2@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> ---

Applied to my tree as a fix for 3.20.

Thanks !

   -- Daniel
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/mtk_timer.c b/drivers/clocksource/mtk_timer.c
index 32a3d25..68ab423 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/mtk_timer.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/mtk_timer.c
@@ -224,6 +224,8 @@  static void __init mtk_timer_init(struct device_node *node)
 	}
 	rate = clk_get_rate(clk);
 
+	mtk_timer_global_reset(evt);
+
 	if (request_irq(evt->dev.irq, mtk_timer_interrupt,
 			IRQF_TIMER | IRQF_IRQPOLL, "mtk_timer", evt)) {
 		pr_warn("failed to setup irq %d\n", evt->dev.irq);
@@ -232,8 +234,6 @@  static void __init mtk_timer_init(struct device_node *node)
 
 	evt->ticks_per_jiffy = DIV_ROUND_UP(rate, HZ);
 
-	mtk_timer_global_reset(evt);
-
 	/* Configure clock source */
 	mtk_timer_setup(evt, GPT_CLK_SRC, TIMER_CTRL_OP_FREERUN);
 	clocksource_mmio_init(evt->gpt_base + TIMER_CNT_REG(GPT_CLK_SRC),
@@ -241,10 +241,11 @@  static void __init mtk_timer_init(struct device_node *node)
 
 	/* Configure clock event */
 	mtk_timer_setup(evt, GPT_CLK_EVT, TIMER_CTRL_OP_REPEAT);
-	mtk_timer_enable_irq(evt, GPT_CLK_EVT);
-
 	clockevents_config_and_register(&evt->dev, rate, 0x3,
 					0xffffffff);
+
+	mtk_timer_enable_irq(evt, GPT_CLK_EVT);
+
 	return;
 
 err_clk_disable: