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iio: event: Fix event FIFO reset race
`iio_event_getfd()` creates the event file descriptor with `anon_inode_getfd()`, which allocates a new fd, creates the anonymous file and installs it in the process fd table before returning to the caller. The IIO code resets the event FIFO after `anon_inode_getfd()` has returned, but before `IIO_GET_EVENT_FD_IOCTL` has copied the fd number to userspace. But since fd tables are shared between threads, another thread can guess the newly allocated fd number and issue a `read()` on it as soon as the fd has been installed. This means the `kfifo_to_user()` in `iio_event_chrdev_read()` can run in parallel with the `kfifo_reset_out()` in `iio_event_getfd()`. The kfifo documentation says that `kfifo_reset_out()` is only safe when it is called from the reader thread and there is only one concurrent reader. Otherwise it is dangerous and must be handled in the same way as `kfifo_reset()`. If that happens, `kfifo_to_user()` can advance the FIFO `out` index based on state from before the reset, after the reset has already moved the `out` index to the current `in` index. That can leave the FIFO with an `out` index past the `in` index. A later `read()` can then see an underflowed FIFO length and copy more data than the event FIFO buffer contains. This can result in an out-of-bounds read and leak adjacent kernel memory to userspace. Move the FIFO reset before `anon_inode_getfd()`. At that point the event fd is marked busy, but the new fd has not been installed yet, so userspace cannot access it while the FIFO is reset. Fixes: b91acca ("iio:event: Fix and cleanup locking") Reported-by: Codex:gpt-5.5 Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> Reviewed-by: Nuno Sá <nuno.sa@analog.com> Cc: <Stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
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drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c

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@@ -207,17 +207,16 @@ static int iio_event_getfd(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
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goto unlock;
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}
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kfifo_reset_out(&ev_int->det_events);
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iio_device_get(indio_dev);
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fd = anon_inode_getfd("iio:event", &iio_event_chrdev_fileops,
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indio_dev, O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC);
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if (fd < 0) {
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clear_bit(IIO_BUSY_BIT_POS, &ev_int->flags);
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iio_device_put(indio_dev);
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} else {
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kfifo_reset_out(&ev_int->det_events);
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}
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unlock:
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mutex_unlock(&iio_dev_opaque->mlock);
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return fd;

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