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authorNickolai Zeldovich <nickolai@csail.mit.edu>2026-10-16 10:00:43 -0400
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2026-10-24 01:56:38 -0700
commitd2f7bdfdeac8137e942b32e0badc40e181127d7b (patch)
tree2440a458eefc2f79504c656995bf25defe076a14 /tools/lib/python/kdoc
parent8f9039840588dd618c72a726c192126bb7b98228 (diff)
resource: report a devm_request_resource() conflict under the lock
devm_request_resource() calls request_resource_conflict(), which takes resource_lock, tries to insert the new resource and returns a pointer to the conflicting resource after dropping the lock. The error message is then formatted from that pointer: conflict->name and the %pR argument read the name, start, end, flags and desc of a resource that nothing pins any more. The owner of the conflicting resource may call release_resource() and free it the moment the lock is dropped. The conflicting resource normally belongs to another device. With two devices whose drivers claim overlapping regions (two PCI host bridges whose "ranges" windows overlap, two instances of a controller on the same aperture, or a stale claim an administrator is replacing), the following interleaving reads freed memory: CPU 0: driver B probe CPU 1: driver A unbind devm_request_resource(devB, root, resB) request_resource_conflict() write_lock(&resource_lock) __request_resource() -> resA write_unlock(&resource_lock) devres_release_all(devA) devm_resource_release() release_resource(resA) put_device() -> kfree(resA) dev_err(..., resA->name, resA) use after free Both halves are reachable from userspace on any kernel: a write to the "unbind" file of the driver that holds the region and a write to the "bind" file of the driver that wants it. One in-tree path is drivers/pci/bus.c devm_request_pci_bus_resources(), called from host bridge probe for every bridge window; the windows are the embedded struct resource of kzalloc'ed resource_entry objects that pci_free_resource_list() frees when the other bridge is released. In the common case the "resource collision" message is garbled; with the slab object poisoned (CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG) or reused, formatting conflict->name oopses, and KASAN reports a slab-use-after-free read in devm_request_resource(). All of this happens in a probe that is already failing with -EBUSY. The window is a few hundred instructions wide and exists only when two devices actually collide, so the race has not been observed outside of analysis. Do the same here: take resource_lock, insert with __request_resource() and print the diagnostic while the lock still keeps the conflicting resource in the tree, then drop the lock. The return values and the devres handling are unchanged. The change was built for x86_64 and RISC-V; the resource KUnit tests pass on both. Found by formal verification of kernel/resource.c against the kernel binary. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20261016140043.790048-1-nickolai@csail.mit.edu Fixes: 8d38821cbcf5 ("resources: Add device-managed request/release_resource()") Signed-off-by: Nickolai Zeldovich <nickolai@csail.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan <brads@mainlining.org> Assisted-by: LLM Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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