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v4l: event: Prevent freeing event subscriptions while accessed

PATCH In review Sakari Ailus 2 participants 2 messages Sep 14, 2018 – Sep 21, 2018 Media (V4L/DVB)

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PATCH v3 1/1 v4l: event: Prevent freeing event subscriptions while accessed

The event subscriptions are added to the subscribed event list while holding a spinlock, but that lock is subsequently released while still accessing the subscription object. This makes it possible to unsubscribe the event --- and freeing the subscription object's memory --- while the subscription object is simultaneously accessed.

Prevent this by adding a mutex to serialise the event subscription and unsubscription. This also gives a guarantee to the callback ops that the add op has returned before the del op is called.

This change also results in making the elems field less special:
subscriptions are only added to the event list once they are fully initialised.

---
since v1:

- Call the mutex field subscribe_lock instead.

- Move the field that is now subscribe_lock above the subscribed field the write access to which it serialises.

- Improve documentation of the subscribe_lock field.

since v2:

- Acquire spinlock for the duration of list_add() in v4l2_event_subscribe().

- Remove a redundant comment in the same place.

 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-event.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fh.c    |  2 ++
 include/media/v4l2-fh.h              |  4 ++++
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-event.c +20 -18
index 127fe6eb91d9..a3ef1f50a4b3 100644
@@ -115,14 +115,6 @@ static void __v4l2_event_queue_fh(struct v4l2_fh *fh, const struct v4l2_event *e
 	if (sev == NULL)
 		return;
 
-	/*
-	 * If the event has been added to the fh->subscribed list, but its
-	 * add op has not completed yet elems will be 0, treat this as
-	 * not being subscribed.
-	 */
-	if (!sev->elems)
-		return;
-
 	/* Increase event sequence number on fh. */
 	fh->sequence++;
 
@@ -208,6 +200,7 @@ int v4l2_event_subscribe(struct v4l2_fh *fh,
 	struct v4l2_subscribed_event *sev, *found_ev;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	unsigned i;
+	int ret = 0;
 
 	if (sub->type == V4L2_EVENT_ALL)
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -225,31 +218,36 @@ int v4l2_event_subscribe(struct v4l2_fh *fh,
 	sev->flags = sub->flags;
 	sev->fh = fh;
 	sev->ops = ops;
+	sev->elems = elems;
+
+	mutex_lock(&fh->subscribe_lock);
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&fh->vdev->fh_lock, flags);
 	found_ev = v4l2_event_subscribed(fh, sub->type, sub->id);
-	if (!found_ev)
-		list_add(&sev->list, &fh->subscribed);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fh->vdev->fh_lock, flags);
 
 	if (found_ev) {
+		/* Already listening */
 		kvfree(sev);
-		return 0; /* Already listening */
+		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
 	if (sev->ops && sev->ops->add) {
-		int ret = sev->ops->add(sev, elems);
+		ret = sev->ops->add(sev, elems);
 		if (ret) {
-			sev->ops = NULL;
-			v4l2_event_unsubscribe(fh, sub);
-			return ret;
+			kvfree(sev);
+			goto out_unlock;
 		}
 	}
 
-	/* Mark as ready for use */
-	sev->elems = elems;
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&fh->vdev->fh_lock, flags);
+	list_add(&sev->list, &fh->subscribed);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fh->vdev->fh_lock, flags);
 
-	return 0;
+out_unlock:
+	mutex_unlock(&fh->subscribe_lock);
+
+	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(v4l2_event_subscribe);
 
@@ -288,6 +286,8 @@ int v4l2_event_unsubscribe(struct v4l2_fh *fh,
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+	mutex_lock(&fh->subscribe_lock);
+
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&fh->vdev->fh_lock, flags);
 
 	sev = v4l2_event_subscribed(fh, sub->type, sub->id);
@@ -305,6 +305,8 @@ int v4l2_event_unsubscribe(struct v4l2_fh *fh,
 	if (sev && sev->ops && sev->ops->del)
 		sev->ops->del(sev);
 
+	mutex_unlock(&fh->subscribe_lock);
+
 	kvfree(sev);
 
 	return 0;
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fh.c +2 -0
index 3895999bf880..c91a7bd3ecfc 100644
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ void v4l2_fh_init(struct v4l2_fh *fh, struct video_device *vdev)
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fh->available);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fh->subscribed);
 	fh->sequence = -1;
+	mutex_init(&fh->subscribe_lock);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(v4l2_fh_init);
 
@@ -90,6 +91,7 @@ void v4l2_fh_exit(struct v4l2_fh *fh)
 		return;
 	v4l_disable_media_source(fh->vdev);
 	v4l2_event_unsubscribe_all(fh);
+	mutex_destroy(&fh->subscribe_lock);
 	fh->vdev = NULL;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(v4l2_fh_exit);
include/media/v4l2-fh.h +4 -0
index ea73fef8bdc0..8586cfb49828 100644
@@ -38,10 +38,13 @@ struct v4l2_ctrl_handler;
  * @prio: priority of the file handler, as defined by &enum v4l2_priority
  *
  * @wait: event' s wait queue
+ * @subscribe_lock: serialise changes to the subscribed list; guarantee that
+ *		    the add and del event callbacks are orderly called
  * @subscribed: list of subscribed events
  * @available: list of events waiting to be dequeued
  * @navailable: number of available events at @available list
  * @sequence: event sequence number
+ *
  * @m2m_ctx: pointer to &struct v4l2_m2m_ctx
  */
 struct v4l2_fh {
@@ -52,6 +55,7 @@ struct v4l2_fh {
 
 	/* Events */
 	wait_queue_head_t	wait;
+	struct mutex		subscribe_lock;
 	struct list_head	subscribed;
 	struct list_head	available;
 	unsigned int		navailable;
Signature · 1 line
2.11.0
Reviewed-by on v3 1/1
#1 lore raw

Hi Sakari,

Thank you for the patch.

Quoted 10 lines · On Friday, 14 September 2018 14:03:01 EEST Sakari Ailus wrote:

The event subscriptions are added to the subscribed event list while holding a spinlock, but that lock is subsequently released while still accessing the subscription object. This makes it possible to unsubscribe the event --- and freeing the subscription object's memory --- while the subscription object is simultaneously accessed.

Prevent this by adding a mutex to serialise the event subscription and unsubscription. This also gives a guarantee to the callback ops that the add op has returned before the del op is called.

Quoted 6 lines

This change also results in making the elems field less special:
subscriptions are only added to the event list once they are fully initialised.

It wasn't immediately clear to me that the !sev->elems check can be removed because the subscriptions are *now* only added to the event list once they are fully initialized, I thought the sentence documented the current implementation. After realizing that,

Quoted 160 lines

---
since v1:

- Call the mutex field subscribe_lock instead.

- Move the field that is now subscribe_lock above the subscribed field the write access to which it serialises.

- Improve documentation of the subscribe_lock field.

since v2:

- Acquire spinlock for the duration of list_add() in v4l2_event_subscribe().

- Remove a redundant comment in the same place.

 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-event.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++----------------
 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fh.c    |  2 ++
 include/media/v4l2-fh.h              |  4 ++++
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
(quoted diff) +0 -0

b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-event.c index 127fe6eb91d9..a3ef1f50a4b3 100644

drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-event.c +20 -18
@@ -115,14 +115,6 @@ static void __v4l2_event_queue_fh(struct v4l2_fh *fh,
 const struct v4l2_event *e if (sev == NULL)
 		return;
 
-	/*
-	 * If the event has been added to the fh->subscribed list, but its
-	 * add op has not completed yet elems will be 0, treat this as
-	 * not being subscribed.
-	 */
-	if (!sev->elems)
-		return;
-
 	/* Increase event sequence number on fh. */
 	fh->sequence++;
 
@@ -208,6 +200,7 @@ int v4l2_event_subscribe(struct v4l2_fh *fh,
 	struct v4l2_subscribed_event *sev, *found_ev;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	unsigned i;
+	int ret = 0;
 
 	if (sub->type == V4L2_EVENT_ALL)
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -225,31 +218,36 @@ int v4l2_event_subscribe(struct v4l2_fh *fh,
 	sev->flags = sub->flags;
 	sev->fh = fh;
 	sev->ops = ops;
+	sev->elems = elems;
+
+	mutex_lock(&fh->subscribe_lock);
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&fh->vdev->fh_lock, flags);
 	found_ev = v4l2_event_subscribed(fh, sub->type, sub->id);
-	if (!found_ev)
-		list_add(&sev->list, &fh->subscribed);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fh->vdev->fh_lock, flags);
 
 	if (found_ev) {
+		/* Already listening */
 		kvfree(sev);
-		return 0; /* Already listening */
+		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
 	if (sev->ops && sev->ops->add) {
-		int ret = sev->ops->add(sev, elems);
+		ret = sev->ops->add(sev, elems);
 		if (ret) {
-			sev->ops = NULL;
-			v4l2_event_unsubscribe(fh, sub);
-			return ret;
+			kvfree(sev);
+			goto out_unlock;
 		}
 	}
 
-	/* Mark as ready for use */
-	sev->elems = elems;
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&fh->vdev->fh_lock, flags);
+	list_add(&sev->list, &fh->subscribed);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fh->vdev->fh_lock, flags);
 
-	return 0;
+out_unlock:
+	mutex_unlock(&fh->subscribe_lock);
+
+	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(v4l2_event_subscribe);
 
@@ -288,6 +286,8 @@ int v4l2_event_unsubscribe(struct v4l2_fh *fh,
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+	mutex_lock(&fh->subscribe_lock);
+
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&fh->vdev->fh_lock, flags);
 
 	sev = v4l2_event_subscribed(fh, sub->type, sub->id);
@@ -305,6 +305,8 @@ int v4l2_event_unsubscribe(struct v4l2_fh *fh,
 	if (sev && sev->ops && sev->ops->del)
 		sev->ops->del(sev);
 
+	mutex_unlock(&fh->subscribe_lock);
+
 	kvfree(sev);
 
 	return 0;
(quoted diff) +0 -0

b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fh.c index 3895999bf880..c91a7bd3ecfc 100644

drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fh.c +2 -0
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ void v4l2_fh_init(struct v4l2_fh *fh, struct video_device
 *vdev) INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fh->available);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fh->subscribed);
 	fh->sequence = -1;
+	mutex_init(&fh->subscribe_lock);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(v4l2_fh_init);
 
@@ -90,6 +91,7 @@ void v4l2_fh_exit(struct v4l2_fh *fh)
 		return;
 	v4l_disable_media_source(fh->vdev);
 	v4l2_event_unsubscribe_all(fh);
+	mutex_destroy(&fh->subscribe_lock);
 	fh->vdev = NULL;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(v4l2_fh_exit);
include/media/v4l2-fh.h +1 -0
index ea73fef8bdc0..8586cfb49828 100644
@@ -38,10 +38,13 @@ struct v4l2_ctrl_handler;
  * @prio: priority of the file handler, as defined by &enum v4l2_priority
  *
  * @wait: event' s wait queue
+ * @subscribe_lock: serialise changes to the subscribed list; guarantee

that + * the add and del event callbacks are orderly called
* @subscribed: list of subscribed events
* @available: list of events waiting to be dequeued
* @navailable: number of available events at @available list
* @sequence: event sequence number
+ *
* @m2m_ctx: pointer to &struct v4l2_m2m_ctx
*/
struct v4l2_fh {

include/media/v4l2-fh.h +1 -0
@@ -52,6 +55,7 @@ struct v4l2_fh {
 
 	/* Events */
 	wait_queue_head_t	wait;
+	struct mutex		subscribe_lock;
 	struct list_head	subscribed;
 	struct list_head	available;
 	unsigned int		navailable;
Signature · 3 lines
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart