On 06.05.2022 00:04, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
From: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch>
Most fbdev drivers have issues with the fb_info lifetime, because call to
framebuffer_release() from their driver's .remove callback, rather than
doing from fbops.fb_destroy callback.
Doing that will destroy the fb_info too early, while references to it may
still exist, leading to a use-after-free error.
To prevent this, check the fb_info reference counter when attempting to
kfree the data structure in framebuffer_release(). That will leak it but
at least will prevent the mentioned error.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javi...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm...@suse.de>
---
(no changes since v1)
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbsysfs.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbsysfs.c
b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbsysfs.c
index 8c1ee9ecec3d..c2a60b187467 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbsysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbsysfs.c
@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ void framebuffer_release(struct fb_info *info)
{
if (!info)
return;
+
+ if (WARN_ON(refcount_read(&info->count)))
+ return;
+
Regarding drm:
What about drm_fb_helper_fini? It calls also framebuffer_release and is
called often from _remove paths (checked intel/radeon/nouveau). I guess
it should be fixed as well. Do you plan to fix it?
Regarding fb drivers, just for stats:
git grep -p framebuffer_release | grep _remove | wc -l
Suggests there is at least 70 incorrect users of this :)
Regards
Andrzej
