driver core: fix potential NULL pointer dereference in dev_uevent()

If userspace reads "uevent" device attribute at the same time as another
threads unbinds the device from its driver, change to dev->driver from a
valid pointer to NULL may result in crash. Fix this by using READ_ONCE()
when fetching the pointer, and take bus' drivers klist lock to make sure
driver instance will not disappear while we access it.

Use WRITE_ONCE() when setting the driver pointer to ensure there is no
tearing.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250311052417.1846985-3-dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index b000ee61c149..cbc0099d8ef2 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -2624,6 +2624,35 @@ static const char *dev_uevent_name(const struct kobject *kobj)
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Try filling "DRIVER=<name>" uevent variable for a device. Because this
+ * function may race with binding and unbinding the device from a driver,
+ * we need to be careful. Binding is generally safe, at worst we miss the
+ * fact that the device is already bound to a driver (but the driver
+ * information that is delivered through uevents is best-effort, it may
+ * become obsolete as soon as it is generated anyways). Unbinding is more
+ * risky as driver pointer is transitioning to NULL, so READ_ONCE() should
+ * be used to make sure we are dealing with the same pointer, and to
+ * ensure that driver structure is not going to disappear from under us
+ * we take bus' drivers klist lock. The assumption that only registered
+ * driver can be bound to a device, and to unregister a driver bus code
+ * will take the same lock.
+ */
+static void dev_driver_uevent(const struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
+{
+	struct subsys_private *sp = bus_to_subsys(dev->bus);
+
+	if (sp) {
+		scoped_guard(spinlock, &sp->klist_drivers.k_lock) {
+			struct device_driver *drv = READ_ONCE(dev->driver);
+			if (drv)
+				add_uevent_var(env, "DRIVER=%s", drv->name);
+		}
+
+		subsys_put(sp);
+	}
+}
+
 static int dev_uevent(const struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
 {
 	const struct device *dev = kobj_to_dev(kobj);
@@ -2655,8 +2684,8 @@ static int dev_uevent(const struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
 	if (dev->type && dev->type->name)
 		add_uevent_var(env, "DEVTYPE=%s", dev->type->name);
 
-	if (dev->driver)
-		add_uevent_var(env, "DRIVER=%s", dev->driver->name);
+	/* Add "DRIVER=%s" variable if the device is bound to a driver */
+	dev_driver_uevent(dev, env);
 
 	/* Add common DT information about the device */
 	of_device_uevent(dev, env);