Return-Path: From: Dean Jenkins To: Dean Jenkins , Marcel Holtmann , Gustavo Padovan , Johan Hedberg CC: Subject: [PATCH v1 1/4] Bluetooth: Fix HCI UART HCI_UART_PROTO_SET locking Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 15:15:07 +0100 Message-ID: <1473257710-2073-2-git-send-email-Dean_Jenkins@mentor.com> In-Reply-To: <1473257710-2073-1-git-send-email-Dean_Jenkins@mentor.com> References: <1473257710-2073-1-git-send-email-Dean_Jenkins@mentor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain List-ID: From: Vignesh Raman Here is a NULL pointer dereference that causes a Bluetooth crash: (hci_uart_tty_receive+0x0/0x84 [hci_uart]) from (flush_to_ldisc+0x104/0x190) (flush_to_ldisc+0x0/0x190) from (tty_flip_buffer_push+0x50/0x5c) (tty_flip_buffer_push+0x0/0x5c) from (imx_rxint+0x228/0x23c) (imx_rxint+0x0/0x23c) from (imx_int+0xa8/0x174) (imx_int+0x0/0x174) from (handle_irq_event_percpu+0x90/0x280) (handle_irq_event_percpu+0x0/0x280) from (handle_irq_event+0x44/0x64) (handle_irq_event+0x0/0x64) from (handle_fasteoi_irq+0xc0/0x108) (handle_fasteoi_irq+0x0/0x108) from (generic_handle_irq+0x28/0x38) (generic_handle_irq+0x0/0x38) from (handle_IRQ+0x6c/0x94) (handle_IRQ+0x0/0x94) from (gic_handle_irq+0x44/0x68) (gic_handle_irq+0x0/0x68) from (__irq_svc+0x40/0x70) (bcsp_open+0x0/0xcc [hci_uart]) from (hci_uart_tty_ioctl+0xa8/0x238 [hci_uart]) (hci_uart_tty_ioctl+0x0/0x238 [hci_uart]) from (tty_ioctl+0xa88/0xae8) (tty_ioctl+0x0/0xae8) from (vfs_ioctl+0x30/0x44) (vfs_ioctl+0x0/0x44) from (do_vfs_ioctl+0x53c/0x590) (do_vfs_ioctl+0x0/0x590) from (sys_ioctl+0x40/0x68) (sys_ioctl+0x0/0x68) from (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x30) It can be seen that bcsp_open() is pre-empted by an interrupt relating to reception of UART characters. bcsp_open() is called from hci_uart_set_proto() which is called from hci_uart_tty_ioctl() due to HCIUARTSETPROTO handling. The crash occurs in hci_uart_tty_receive() and analysis shows: if (!test_bit(HCI_UART_PROTO_SET, &hu->flags)) return; spin_lock(&hu->rx_lock); hu->proto->recv(hu, (void *) data, count); The crash occurs in the dereference hu->proto->recv. Presumably no recv function has been set and a NULL pointer dereference occurs. Note that the flag HCI_UART_PROTO_SET being clear should prevent the failure but in fact fails. This indicates that HCI_UART_PROTO_SET is in the set state. The HCI_UART_PROTO_SET locking fails because HCI_UART_PROTO_SET is put into the set state in hci_uart_tty_ioctl() BEFORE calling hci_uart_set_proto() to set the recv function pointer. Therefore, there is a race condition. The solution is to set the flag HCI_UART_PROTO_SET after successfully calling hci_uart_set_proto() in the HCIUARTSETPROTO handling in hci_uart_tty_ioctl(). This will prevent hci_uart_tty_receive() from performing the recv function pointer dereference until hci_uart_set_proto() has set the recv function pointer. Signed-off-by: Vignesh Raman Signed-off-by: Dean Jenkins Signed-off-by: Mark Craske --- drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c index dda9739..1e338d5 100644 --- a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c +++ b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c @@ -695,12 +695,12 @@ static int hci_uart_tty_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file, switch (cmd) { case HCIUARTSETPROTO: - if (!test_and_set_bit(HCI_UART_PROTO_SET, &hu->flags)) { + if (!test_bit(HCI_UART_PROTO_SET, &hu->flags)) { err = hci_uart_set_proto(hu, arg); - if (err) { - clear_bit(HCI_UART_PROTO_SET, &hu->flags); + if (!err) + set_bit(HCI_UART_PROTO_SET, &hu->flags); + else return err; - } } else return -EBUSY; break; -- 2.7.4