CVE-2024-57889
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pinctrl: mcp23s08: Fix sleeping in atomic context due to regmap locking
If a device uses MCP23xxx IO expander to receive IRQs, the following
bug can happen:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context
at kernel/locking/mutex.c:283
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, ...
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
...
Call Trace:
...
__might_resched+0x104/0x10e
__might_sleep+0x3e/0x62
mutex_lock+0x20/0x4c
regmap_lock_mutex+0x10/0x18
regmap_update_bits_base+0x2c/0x66
mcp23s08_irq_set_type+0x1ae/0x1d6
__irq_set_trigger+0x56/0x172
__setup_irq+0x1e6/0x646
request_threaded_irq+0xb6/0x160
...
We observed the problem while experimenting with a touchscreen driver which
used MCP23017 IO expander (I2C).
The regmap in the pinctrl-mcp23s08 driver uses a mutex for protection from
concurrent accesses, which is the default for regmaps without .fast_io,
.disable_locking, etc.
mcp23s08_irq_set_type() calls regmap_update_bits_base(), and the latter
locks the mutex.
However, __setup_irq() locks desc->lock spinlock before calling these
functions. As a result, the system tries to lock the mutex whole holding
the spinlock.
It seems, the internal regmap locks are not needed in this driver at all.
mcp->lock seems to protect the regmap from concurrent accesses already,
except, probably, in mcp_pinconf_get/set.
mcp23s08_irq_set_type() and mcp23s08_irq_mask/unmask() are called under
chip_bus_lock(), which calls mcp23s08_irq_bus_lock(). The latter takes
mcp->lock and enables regmap caching, so that the potentially slow I2C
accesses are deferred until chip_bus_unlock().
The accesses to the regmap from mcp23s08_probe_one() do not need additional
locking.
In all remaining places where the regmap is accessed, except
mcp_pinconf_get/set(), the driver already takes mcp->lock.
This patch adds locking in mcp_pinconf_get/set() and disables internal
locking in the regmap config. Among other things, it fixes the sleeping
in atomic context described above.