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    PCI/AER: Flush workqueue on device remove to avoid use-after-free · 4ae2182b
    Sebastian Andrzej Siewior authored
    
    
    A Root Port's AER structure (rpc) contains a queue of events.  aer_irq()
    enqueues AER status information and schedules aer_isr() to dequeue and
    process it.  When we remove a device, aer_remove() waits for the queue to
    be empty, then frees the rpc struct.
    
    But aer_isr() references the rpc struct after dequeueing and possibly
    emptying the queue, which can cause a use-after-free error as in the
    following scenario with two threads, aer_isr() on the left and a
    concurrent aer_remove() on the right:
    
      Thread A                      Thread B
      --------                      --------
      aer_irq():
        rpc->prod_idx++
                                    aer_remove():
                                      wait_event(rpc->prod_idx == rpc->cons_idx)
                                      # now blocked until queue becomes empty
      aer_isr():                      # ...
        rpc->cons_idx++               # unblocked because queue is now empty
        ...                           kfree(rpc)
        mutex_unlock(&rpc->rpc_mutex)
    
    To prevent this problem, use flush_work() to wait until the last scheduled
    instance of aer_isr() has completed before freeing the rpc struct in
    aer_remove().
    
    I reproduced this use-after-free by flashing a device FPGA and
    re-enumerating the bus to find the new device.  With SLUB debug, this
    crashes with 0x6b bytes (POISON_FREE, the use-after-free magic number) in
    GPR25:
    
      pcieport 0000:00:00.0: AER: Multiple Corrected error received: id=0000
      Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x27ef9e3e
      Workqueue: events aer_isr
      GPR24: dd6aa000 6b6b6b6b 605f8378 605f8360 d99b12c0 604fc674 606b1704 d99b12c0
      NIP [602f5328] pci_walk_bus+0xd4/0x104
    
    [bhelgaas: changelog, stable tag]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
    CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
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