kernel/linux.git/drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c, branch v6.12.80

comedi: Fix getting range information for subdevices 16 to 255

2026-01-30T09:28:40+00:00

commit 10d28cffb3f6ec7ad67f0a4cd32c2afa92909452 upstream. The `COMEDI_RANGEINFO` ioctl does not work properly for subdevice indices above 15. Currently, the only in-tree COMEDI drivers that support more than 16 subdevices are the "8255" driver and the "comedi_bond" driver. Making the ioctl work for subdevice indices up to 255 is achievable. It needs minor changes to the handling of the `COMEDI_RANGEINFO` and `COMEDI_CHANINFO` ioctls that should be mostly harmless to user-space, apart from making them less broken. Details follow... The `COMEDI_RANGEINFO` ioctl command gets the list of supported ranges (usually with units of volts or milliamps) for a COMEDI subdevice or channel. (Only some subdevices have per-channel range tables, indicated by the `SDF_RANGETYPE` flag in the subdevice information.) It uses a `range_type` value and a user-space pointer, both supplied by user-space, but the `range_type` value should match what was obtained using the `COMEDI_CHANINFO` ioctl (if the subdevice has per-channel range tables) or `COMEDI_SUBDINFO` ioctl (if the subdevice uses a single range table for all channels). Bits 15 to 0 of the `range_type` value contain the length of the range table, which is the only part that user-space should care about (so it can use a suitably sized buffer to fetch the range table). Bits 23 to 16 store the channel index, which is assumed to be no more than 255 if the subdevice has per-channel range tables, and is set to 0 if the subdevice has a single range table. For `range_type` values produced by the `COMEDI_SUBDINFO` ioctl, bits 31 to 24 contain the subdevice index, which is assumed to be no more than 255. But for `range_type` values produced by the `COMEDI_CHANINFO` ioctl, bits 27 to 24 contain the subdevice index, which is assumed to be no more than 15, and bits 31 to 28 contain the COMEDI device's minor device number for some unknown reason lost in the mists of time. The `COMEDI_RANGEINFO` ioctl extract the length from bits 15 to 0 of the user-supplied `range_type` value, extracts the channel index from bits 23 to 16 (only used if the subdevice has per-channel range tables), extracts the subdevice index from bits 27 to 24, and ignores bits 31 to 28. So for subdevice indices 16 to 255, the `COMEDI_SUBDINFO` or `COMEDI_CHANINFO` ioctl will report a `range_type` value that doesn't work with the `COMEDI_RANGEINFO` ioctl. It will either get the range table for the subdevice index modulo 16, or will fail with `-EINVAL`. To fix this, always use bits 31 to 24 of the `range_type` value to hold the subdevice index (assumed to be no more than 255). This affects the `COMEDI_CHANINFO` and `COMEDI_RANGEINFO` ioctls. There should not be anything in user-space that depends on the old, broken usage, although it may now see different values in bits 31 to 28 of the `range_type` values reported by the `COMEDI_CHANINFO` ioctl for subdevices that have per-channel subdevices. User-space should not be trying to decode bits 31 to 16 of the `range_type` values anyway. Fixes: ed9eccbe8970 ("Staging: add comedi core") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #5.17+ Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251203162438.176841-1-abbotti@mev.co.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

comedi: check device's attached status in compat ioctls

2025-12-12T17:37:21+00:00

commit 0de7d9cd07a2671fa6089173bccc0b2afe6b93ee upstream. Syzbot identified an issue [1] that crashes kernel, seemingly due to unexistent callback dev->get_valid_routes(). By all means, this should not occur as said callback must always be set to get_zero_valid_routes() in __comedi_device_postconfig(). As the crash seems to appear exclusively in i386 kernels, at least, judging from [1] reports, the blame lies with compat versions of standard IOCTL handlers. Several of them are modified and do not use comedi_unlocked_ioctl(). While functionality of these ioctls essentially copy their original versions, they do not have required sanity check for device's attached status. This, in turn, leads to a possibility of calling select IOCTLs on a device that has not been properly setup, even via COMEDI_DEVCONFIG. Doing so on unconfigured devices means that several crucial steps are missed, for instance, specifying dev->get_valid_routes() callback. Fix this somewhat crudely by ensuring device's attached status before performing any ioctls, improving logic consistency between modern and compat functions. [1] Syzbot report: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 ... CR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 000000006c717000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0 Call Trace: get_valid_routes drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:1322 [inline] parse_insn+0x78c/0x1970 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:1401 do_insnlist_ioctl+0x272/0x700 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:1594 compat_insnlist drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:3208 [inline] comedi_compat_ioctl+0x810/0x990 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:3273 __do_compat_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:695 [inline] __se_compat_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:638 [inline] __ia32_compat_sys_ioctl+0x242/0x370 fs/ioctl.c:638 do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:83 [inline] ... Reported-by: syzbot+ab8008c24e84adee93ff@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ab8008c24e84adee93ff Fixes: 3fbfd2223a27 ("comedi: get rid of compat_alloc_user_space() mess in COMEDI_CHANINFO compat") Cc: stable Reviewed-by: Ian Abbott Signed-off-by: Nikita Zhandarovich Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251023132234.395794-1-n.zhandarovich@fintech.ru Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

comedi: Fix use of uninitialized memory in do_insn_ioctl() and do_insnlist_ioctl()

2025-08-28T14:31:09+00:00

commit 3cd212e895ca2d58963fdc6422502b10dd3966bb upstream. syzbot reports a KMSAN kernel-infoleak in `do_insn_ioctl()`. A kernel buffer is allocated to hold `insn->n` samples (each of which is an `unsigned int`). For some instruction types, `insn->n` samples are copied back to user-space, unless an error code is being returned. The problem is that not all the instruction handlers that need to return data to userspace fill in the whole `insn->n` samples, so that there is an information leak. There is a similar syzbot report for `do_insnlist_ioctl()`, although it does not have a reproducer for it at the time of writing. One culprit is `insn_rw_emulate_bits()` which is used as the handler for `INSN_READ` or `INSN_WRITE` instructions for subdevices that do not have a specific handler for that instruction, but do have an `INSN_BITS` handler. For `INSN_READ` it only fills in at most 1 sample, so if `insn->n` is greater than 1, the remaining `insn->n - 1` samples copied to userspace will be uninitialized kernel data. Another culprit is `vm80xx_ai_insn_read()` in the "vm80xx" driver. It never returns an error, even if it fails to fill the buffer. Fix it in `do_insn_ioctl()` and `do_insnlist_ioctl()` by making sure that uninitialized parts of the allocated buffer are zeroed before handling each instruction. Thanks to Arnaud Lecomte for their fix to `do_insn_ioctl()`. That fix replaced the call to `kmalloc_array()` with `kcalloc()`, but it is not always necessary to clear the whole buffer. Fixes: ed9eccbe8970 ("Staging: add comedi core") Reported-by: syzbot+a5e45f768aab5892da5d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=a5e45f768aab5892da5d Reported-by: syzbot+fb4362a104d45ab09cf9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=fb4362a104d45ab09cf9 Cc: stable # 5.13+ Cc: Arnaud Lecomte Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250725125324.80276-1-abbotti@mev.co.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

comedi: fix race between polling and detaching

2025-08-20T16:30:52+00:00

commit 35b6fc51c666fc96355be5cd633ed0fe4ccf68b2 upstream. syzbot reports a use-after-free in comedi in the below link, which is due to comedi gladly removing the allocated async area even though poll requests are still active on the wait_queue_head inside of it. This can cause a use-after-free when the poll entries are later triggered or removed, as the memory for the wait_queue_head has been freed. We need to check there are no tasks queued on any of the subdevices' wait queues before allowing the device to be detached by the `COMEDI_DEVCONFIG` ioctl. Tasks will read-lock `dev->attach_lock` before adding themselves to the subdevice wait queue, so fix the problem in the `COMEDI_DEVCONFIG` ioctl handler by write-locking `dev->attach_lock` before checking that all of the subdevices are safe to be deleted. This includes testing for any sleepers on the subdevices' wait queues. It remains locked until the device has been detached. This requires the `comedi_device_detach()` function to be refactored slightly, moving the bulk of it into new function `comedi_device_detach_locked()`. Note that the refactor of `comedi_device_detach()` results in `comedi_device_cancel_all()` now being called while `dev->attach_lock` is write-locked, which wasn't the case previously, but that does not matter. Thanks to Jens Axboe for diagnosing the problem and co-developing this patch. Cc: stable Fixes: 2f3fdcd7ce93 ("staging: comedi: add rw_semaphore to protect against device detachment") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/687bd5fe.a70a0220.693ce.0091.GAE@google.com/ Reported-by: syzbot+01523a0ae5600aef5895@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=01523a0ae5600aef5895 Co-developed-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott Tested-by: Jens Axboe Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250722155316.27432-1-abbotti@mev.co.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

comedi: Fix initialization of data for instructions that write to subdevice

2025-07-24T06:56:29+00:00

commit 46d8c744136ce2454aa4c35c138cc06817f92b8e upstream. Some Comedi subdevice instruction handlers are known to access instruction data elements beyond the first `insn->n` elements in some cases. The `do_insn_ioctl()` and `do_insnlist_ioctl()` functions allocate at least `MIN_SAMPLES` (16) data elements to deal with this, but they do not initialize all of that. For Comedi instruction codes that write to the subdevice, the first `insn->n` data elements are copied from user-space, but the remaining elements are left uninitialized. That could be a problem if the subdevice instruction handler reads the uninitialized data. Ensure that the first `MIN_SAMPLES` elements are initialized before calling these instruction handlers, filling the uncopied elements with 0. For `do_insnlist_ioctl()`, the same data buffer elements are used for handling a list of instructions, so ensure the first `MIN_SAMPLES` elements are initialized for each instruction that writes to the subdevice. Fixes: ed9eccbe8970 ("Staging: add comedi core") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.13+ Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250707161439.88385-1-abbotti@mev.co.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

comedi: Fail COMEDI_INSNLIST ioctl if n_insns is too large

2025-07-24T06:56:28+00:00

commit 08ae4b20f5e82101d77326ecab9089e110f224cc upstream. The handling of the `COMEDI_INSNLIST` ioctl allocates a kernel buffer to hold the array of `struct comedi_insn`, getting the length from the `n_insns` member of the `struct comedi_insnlist` supplied by the user. The allocation will fail with a WARNING and a stack dump if it is too large. Avoid that by failing with an `-EINVAL` error if the supplied `n_insns` value is unreasonable. Define the limit on the `n_insns` value in the `MAX_INSNS` macro. Set this to the same value as `MAX_SAMPLES` (65536), which is the maximum allowed sum of the values of the member `n` in the array of `struct comedi_insn`, and sensible comedi instructions will have an `n` of at least 1. Reported-by: syzbot+d6995b62e5ac7d79557a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d6995b62e5ac7d79557a Fixes: ed9eccbe8970 ("Staging: add comedi core") Tested-by: Ian Abbott Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.13+ Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250704120405.83028-1-abbotti@mev.co.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

comedi: Flush partial mappings in error case

2024-12-05T13:02:46+00:00

commit ce8f9fb651fac95dd41f69afe54d935420b945bd upstream. If some remap_pfn_range() calls succeeded before one failed, we still have buffer pages mapped into the userspace page tables when we drop the buffer reference with comedi_buf_map_put(bm). The userspace mappings are only cleaned up later in the mmap error path. Fix it by explicitly flushing all mappings in our VMA on the error path. See commit 79a61cc3fc04 ("mm: avoid leaving partial pfn mappings around in error case"). Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: ed9eccbe8970 ("Staging: add comedi core") Signed-off-by: Jann Horn Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241017-comedi-tlb-v3-1-16b82f9372ce@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers/comedi: use standard array-copy-function

2023-12-07T02:08:45+00:00

comedi_fops.c utilizes memdup_user() to copy a userspace array. The new function memdup_array_user() provides a standardized way to copy userspace-arrays. It makes it easier to see that an array is being copied and, additionally, performs a generic overflow-check which might help make the code more robust in case of changes in the future. Replace memdup_user() with memdup_array_user(). Suggested-by: Dave Airlie Signed-off-by: Philipp Stanner Reviewed-by: Ian Abbott Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231103112932.75795-2-pstanner@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

comedi: make all 'class' structures const

2023-06-23T08:29:02+00:00

Now that the driver core allows for struct class to be in read-only memory, making all 'class' structures to be declared at build time placing them into read-only memory, instead of having to be dynamically allocated at load time. Cc: Ian Abbott Cc: H Hartley Sweeten Cc: Benjamin Tissoires Cc: Ivan Orlov Cc: Xuezhi Zhang Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Ivan Orlov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230620144137.581406-2-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: class: remove module * from class_create()

2023-03-17T14:16:33+00:00

The module pointer in class_create() never actually did anything, and it shouldn't have been requred to be set as a parameter even if it did something. So just remove it and fix up all callers of the function in the kernel tree at the same time. Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313181843.1207845-4-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman