[PATCH net] dpll: fix NULL pointer dereference in dpll_msg_add_pin_ref_sync()
From: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
Date: 2026-07-10 19:36:36
Also in:
lkml
Subsystem:
dpll subsystem, the rest · Maintainers:
Vadim Fedorenko, Arkadiusz Kubalewski, Jiri Pirko, Linus Torvalds
When a dpll_pin is shared across multiple dpll_device instances and
those devices are being unregistered (e.g. during driver module removal),
a NULL pointer dereference can occur in dpll_msg_add_pin_ref_sync().
This happens under the following conditions:
- A pin is registered with two or more dpll devices (dpll_A, dpll_B)
- The pin has ref_sync pairs with other pins
- During unregistration of dpll_A's pins, a ref_sync partner pin is
unregistered first, removing it from dpll_A->pin_refs
- But since the partner pin is still registered with dpll_B, its
dpll_refs is not empty, so dpll_pin_ref_sync_pair_del() does NOT
run and the partner stays in the pin's ref_sync_pins xarray
- When the pin itself is then unregistered from dpll_A, the delete
notification calls dpll_msg_add_pin_ref_sync() which finds the
partner in ref_sync_pins, passes dpll_pin_available() (partner is
still registered with dpll_B), but dpll_pin_on_dpll_priv(dpll_A,
partner) returns NULL because partner was already removed from
dpll_A->pin_refs
- The NULL priv pointer is passed to the driver's ref_sync_get
callback, which dereferences it
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000034
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
RIP: 0010:zl3073x_dpll_input_pin_ref_sync_get+0x73/0x80 [zl3073x]
Call Trace:
dpll_msg_add_pin_ref_sync+0xb8/0x200
dpll_cmd_pin_get_one+0x3b6/0x4b0
dpll_pin_event_send+0x72/0x140
__dpll_pin_unregister+0x5a/0x2b0
dpll_pin_unregister+0x49/0x70
Fix this by skipping ref_sync pins whose priv pointer cannot be resolved
for the current dpll device.
Fixes: 58256a26bfb3 ("dpll: add reference sync get/set")
Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
---
drivers/dpll/dpll_netlink.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/dpll/dpll_netlink.c b/drivers/dpll/dpll_netlink.c
index bf729cde796a7..5703667593a7c 100644
--- a/drivers/dpll/dpll_netlink.c
+++ b/drivers/dpll/dpll_netlink.c@@ -567,6 +567,9 @@ dpll_msg_add_pin_ref_sync(struct sk_buff *msg, struct dpll_pin *pin, if (!dpll_pin_available(ref_sync_pin)) continue; ref_sync_pin_priv = dpll_pin_on_dpll_priv(dpll, ref_sync_pin); + /* Pin may have been unregistered from this dpll already */ + if (!ref_sync_pin_priv) + continue; if (WARN_ON(!ops->ref_sync_get)) return -EOPNOTSUPP; ret = ops->ref_sync_get(pin, pin_priv, ref_sync_pin,
--
2.53.0