x86/irq: Fix a race in x86_vector_free_irqs()
authorJiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 31 Dec 2015 16:30:44 +0000 (16:30 +0000)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:43:58 +0000 (13:43 +0100)
commit111abeba67e0dbdc26537429de9155e4f1d807d8
treee286d31b727f6f13d12ea3c7625f8adde1e06fbb
parente23b257c293ce4bcc8cabb2aa3097b6ed8a8261a
x86/irq: Fix a race in x86_vector_free_irqs()

There's a race condition between

x86_vector_free_irqs()
{
free_apic_chip_data(irq_data->chip_data);
xxxxx //irq_data->chip_data has been freed, but the pointer
//hasn't been reset yet
irq_domain_reset_irq_data(irq_data);
}

and

smp_irq_move_cleanup_interrupt()
{
raw_spin_lock(&vector_lock);
data = apic_chip_data(irq_desc_get_irq_data(desc));
access data->xxxx // may access freed memory
raw_spin_unlock(&desc->lock);
}

which may cause smp_irq_move_cleanup_interrupt() to access freed memory.

Call irq_domain_reset_irq_data(), which clears the pointer with vector lock
held.

[ tglx: Free memory outside of lock held region. ]

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@stratus.com>
Cc: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>
Cc: andy.shevchenko@gmail.com
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #4.3+
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450880014-11741-3-git-send-email-jiang.liu@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
arch/x86/kernel/apic/vector.c
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