Input: reject inhibit and uninhibit requests on unregistering devices
When an input device is being unregistered via input_unregister_device(),
input_disconnect_device() sets dev->going_away = true under dev->mutex
and releases the mutex.
If a concurrent sysfs write to the inhibited attribute executes
input_inhibit_device() or input_uninhibit_device(), it acquires
dev->mutex. Because neither function checks dev->going_away (unlike
input_open_device()), input_uninhibit_device() proceeds to call
dev->open() and start polling on a device that is in the middle of being
unregistered and torn down.
Fix this by checking dev->going_away in input_inhibit_device() and
input_uninhibit_device() under dev->mutex and returning -ENODEV if the
device is going away.
Fixes: a181616487db ("Input: Add "inhibited" property")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3.6-flash
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/anEolqA35rGei9ql@google.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
diff --git a/drivers/input/input.c b/drivers/input/input.c
index c9f4806..78c10ee 100644
--- a/drivers/input/input.c
+++ b/drivers/input/input.c
@@ -1788,6 +1788,9 @@ static int input_inhibit_device(struct input_dev *dev)
{
guard(mutex)(&dev->mutex);
+ if (dev->going_away)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
if (dev->inhibited)
return 0;
@@ -1821,6 +1824,9 @@ static int input_uninhibit_device(struct input_dev *dev)
guard(mutex)(&dev->mutex);
+ if (dev->going_away)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
if (!dev->inhibited)
return 0;
diff --git a/include/linux/input.h b/include/linux/input.h
index 0ee5f32..3381608 100644
--- a/include/linux/input.h
+++ b/include/linux/input.h
@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ enum input_clock_type {
* user opens device and dev->close() is called when the very
* last user closes the device
* @going_away: marks devices that are in a middle of unregistering and
- * causes input_open_device*() fail with -ENODEV.
+ * causes input_open_device() and input_inhibit/uninhibit_device()
+ * to fail with -ENODEV.
* @dev: driver model's view of this device
* @h_list: list of input handles associated with the device. When
* accessing the list dev->mutex must be held