linux-stable.git/drivers/char/tlclk.c, branch linux-rolling-stable Linux kernel stable tree char: tlclk: fix use-after-free in tlclk_cleanup() 2026-07-24T14:20:02+00:00 James Kim james010kim@gmail.com 2026-05-03T10:11:31+00:00 42223445607a9a5df3cb1c4729abfe3a5085e7ce [ Upstream commit bbf003b7794d6ad6f939fdd29f1f1bde8ac554c1 ] This patch improves the module cleanup process in the tlclk driver to prevent potential use-after-free and race conditions. Currently, the file_operations structure does not specify the .owner field, which could allow the module to be unloaded while user-space processes are still interacting with the device. Additionally, the tlclk_cleanup() function frees the alarm_events memory before ensuring that blocked processes in the waitqueue are fully awakened and that the switchover_timer has completed. To address these cases, this patch: - Sets '.owner = THIS_MODULE' in tlclk_fops to safely defer module unloading while the device is in use. - Updates tlclk_cleanup() to explicitly wake up all blocked readers (wake_up_all), properly release hardware I/O regions, and safely delete the timer (timer_delete_sync) prior to freeing memory. Fixes: 1a80ba882730 ("[PATCH] Telecom Clock Driver for MPCBL0010 ATCA computer blade") Signed-off-by: James Kim <james010kim@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260503101131.64219-1-james010kim@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> 
[ Upstream commit bbf003b7794d6ad6f939fdd29f1f1bde8ac554c1 ]

This patch improves the module cleanup process in the tlclk driver to
prevent potential use-after-free and race conditions.

Currently, the file_operations structure does not specify the .owner
field, which could allow the module to be unloaded while user-space
processes are still interacting with the device. Additionally, the
tlclk_cleanup() function frees the alarm_events memory before ensuring
that blocked processes in the waitqueue are fully awakened and that the
switchover_timer has completed.

To address these cases, this patch:
- Sets '.owner = THIS_MODULE' in tlclk_fops to safely defer module
  unloading while the device is in use.
- Updates tlclk_cleanup() to explicitly wake up all blocked readers
  (wake_up_all), properly release hardware I/O regions, and safely
  delete the timer (timer_delete_sync) prior to freeing memory.

Fixes: 1a80ba882730 ("[PATCH] Telecom Clock Driver for MPCBL0010 ATCA computer blade")
Signed-off-by: James Kim <james010kim@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260503101131.64219-1-james010kim@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00 bf4afc53b77aeaa48b5409da5c8da6bb4eff7f43 This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' | xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/' to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL argument to just drop that argument. Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered: they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically. For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate conversion. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types 2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00 Kees Cook kees@kernel.org 2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00 69050f8d6d075dc01af7a5f2f550a8067510366f This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> 
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]() 2025-04-05T08:30:12+00:00 Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de 2025-04-05T08:17:26+00:00 8fa7292fee5c5240402371ea89ab285ec856c916 timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree over and remove the historical wrapper inlines. Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 
timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree
over and remove the historical wrapper inlines.

Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
tlclk: convert to use faux_device 2025-03-14T08:10:32+00:00 Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org 2025-02-10T12:30:30+00:00 72239a78f9f5b9f05ea4bb7a15b92807906dab71 The tlclk driver does not need to create a platform device, it only did so because it was simple to do that in order to get a place in sysfs to hang some device-specific attributes. Change it over to use the faux device instead as this is NOT a real platform device, and it makes the code even smaller than before. Cc: Mark Gross <markgross@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2025021028-askew-smashing-4ff9@gregkh Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
The tlclk driver does not need to create a platform device, it only did
so because it was simple to do that in order to get a place in sysfs to
hang some device-specific attributes.  Change it over to use the faux
device instead as this is NOT a real platform device, and it makes the
code even smaller than before.

Cc: Mark Gross <markgross@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2025021028-askew-smashing-4ff9@gregkh
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tlclk: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro 2024-06-04T15:40:14+00:00 Jeff Johnson quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com 2024-06-03T18:33:05+00:00 a464822872f5e0e6a541c0b4971bea10421db5fa make allmodconfig && make W=1 C=1 reports: WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/char/tlclk.o Add the missing invocation of the MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro. Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240603-md-char-tlclk-v1-1-d395aa93da86@quicinc.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
make allmodconfig && make W=1 C=1 reports:
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/char/tlclk.o

Add the missing invocation of the MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240603-md-char-tlclk-v1-1-d395aa93da86@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers: char: tlclk.c: Avoid data race between init and interrupt handler 2020-04-23T14:55:24+00:00 Madhuparna Bhowmik madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com 2020-04-17T15:34:51+00:00 44b8fb6eaa7c3fb770bf1e37619cdb3902cca1fc After registering character device the file operation callbacks can be called. The open callback registers interrupt handler. Therefore interrupt handler can execute in parallel with rest of the init function. To avoid such data race initialize telclk_interrupt variable and struct alarm_events before registering character device. Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org). Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200417153451.1551-1-madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
After registering character device the file operation callbacks can be
called. The open callback registers interrupt handler.
Therefore interrupt handler can execute in parallel with rest of the init
function. To avoid such data race initialize telclk_interrupt variable
and struct alarm_events before registering character device.

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200417153451.1551-1-madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tlclk: clean an indentation issue, remove extraneous tabs 2018-11-11T20:58:27+00:00 Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com 2018-10-31T19:13:00+00:00 bc702adeba07dba4be8a43e9e2e351df12fc1a6c Trivial fix to clean up an indentation issue, remove tabs Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
Trivial fix to clean up an indentation issue, remove tabs

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
timer: Remove last user of TIMER_INITIALIZER 2017-10-05T13:01:18+00:00 Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org 2017-10-04T23:27:01+00:00 51487d9ed1e386f9f0863bbf385e5da8a586bff8 Drops the last user of TIMER_INITIALIZER and adapts timer.h to use the internal version. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mark Gross <mark.gross@intel.com> Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Ursula Braun <ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Cc: Harish Patil <harish.patil@cavium.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Michael Reed <mdr@sgi.com> Cc: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@cavium.com> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507159627-127660-8-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org 
Drops the last user of TIMER_INITIALIZER and adapts timer.h to use the
internal version.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mark Gross <mark.gross@intel.com>
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Ursula Braun <ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Harish Patil <harish.patil@cavium.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Michael Reed <mdr@sgi.com>
Cc: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@cavium.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507159627-127660-8-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
char: tlclk: constify attribute_group structures. 2017-08-28T15:15:16+00:00 Arvind Yadav arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com 2017-08-02T11:19:05+00:00 0faef109bdac1328b529342bfc8c3d34005a56fe attribute_group are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions working with attribute_group provided by <linux/sysfs.h> work with const attribute_group. So mark the non-const structs as const. Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
attribute_group are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
working with attribute_group provided by <linux/sysfs.h> work with
const attribute_group. So mark the non-const structs as const.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>