Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2017-10-02

[PATCH] HID: wacom: Always increment hdev refcount within wacom_get_hdev_data

From: Jason Gerecke <hidden>
Date: 2017-09-18 16:28:14
Also in: stable
Subsystem: hid core layer, hid wacom driver, the rest · Maintainers: Jiri Kosina, Benjamin Tissoires, Ping Cheng, Jason Gerecke, Linus Torvalds

The wacom_get_hdev_data function is used to find and return a reference to
the "other half" of a Wacom device (i.e., the touch device associated with
a pen, or vice-versa). To ensure these references are properly accounted
for, the function is supposed to automatically increment the refcount before
returning. This was not done, however, for devices which have pen & touch
on different interfaces of the same USB device. This can lead to a WARNING
("refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free") when removing the module or device
as we call kref_put() more times than kref_get(). Triggering an "actual" use-
after-free would be difficult since both devices will disappear nearly-
simultaneously. To silence this warning and prevent the potential error, we
need to increment the refcount for all cases within wacom_get_hdev_data.

Fixes: 41372d5d40 ("HID: wacom: Augment 'oVid' and 'oPid' with heuristics for HID_GENERIC")
Cc: <redacted> # v4.9+
Signed-off-by: Jason Gerecke <jason.gerecke@wacom.com>
---
 drivers/hid/wacom_sys.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hid/wacom_sys.c b/drivers/hid/wacom_sys.c
index 735bfbbcaa82..906e654fb0ba 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/wacom_sys.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/wacom_sys.c
@@ -668,8 +668,10 @@ static struct wacom_hdev_data *wacom_get_hdev_data(struct hid_device *hdev)
 
 	/* Try to find an already-probed interface from the same device */
 	list_for_each_entry(data, &wacom_udev_list, list) {
-		if (compare_device_paths(hdev, data->dev, '/'))
+		if (compare_device_paths(hdev, data->dev, '/')) {
+			kref_get(&data->kref);
 			return data;
+		}
 	}
 
 	/* Fallback to finding devices that appear to be "siblings" */
-- 
2.14.1
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