Valve reported a kernel crash on Ubuntu 18.04 when disconnecting a DS4 gamepad while rumble is enabled. This issue is reproducible with a frequency of 1 in 3 times in the game Borderlands 2 when using an automatic weapon, which triggers many rumble operations.
We found the issue to be a race condition between sony_remove and the final device destruction by the HID / input system. The problem was that sony_remove didn't clean some of its work_item state in "struct sony_sc". After sony_remove work, the corresponding evdev node was around for sufficient time for applications to still queue rumble work after "sony_remove".
On pre-4.19 kernels the race condition caused a kernel crash due to a NULL-pointer dereference as "sc->output_report_dmabuf" got freed during sony_remove. On newer kernels this crash doesn't happen due the buffer now being allocated using devm_kzalloc. However we can still queue work, while the driver is an undefined state.
This patch fixes the described problem, by guarding the work_item "state_worker" with an initialized variable, which we are setting back to 0 on cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Roderick Colenbrander roderick.colenbrander@sony.com CC: stable@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/hid/hid-sony.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-sony.c b/drivers/hid/hid-sony.c index 9671a4bad643..31f1023214d3 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hid-sony.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-sony.c @@ -587,10 +587,14 @@ static void sony_set_leds(struct sony_sc *sc); static inline void sony_schedule_work(struct sony_sc *sc, enum sony_worker which) { + unsigned long flags; + switch (which) { case SONY_WORKER_STATE: - if (!sc->defer_initialization) + spin_lock_irqsave(&sc->lock, flags); + if (!sc->defer_initialization && sc->state_worker_initialized) schedule_work(&sc->state_worker); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sc->lock, flags); break; case SONY_WORKER_HOTPLUG: if (sc->hotplug_worker_initialized) @@ -2553,13 +2557,18 @@ static inline void sony_init_output_report(struct sony_sc *sc,
static inline void sony_cancel_work_sync(struct sony_sc *sc) { + unsigned long flags; + if (sc->hotplug_worker_initialized) cancel_work_sync(&sc->hotplug_worker); - if (sc->state_worker_initialized) + if (sc->state_worker_initialized) { + spin_lock_irqsave(&sc->lock, flags); + sc->state_worker_initialized = 0; + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sc->lock, flags); cancel_work_sync(&sc->state_worker); + } }
- static int sony_input_configured(struct hid_device *hdev, struct hid_input *hidinput) {