enable_best_rng() is used in hwrng_unregister() to switch away from the
currently active RNG, if that is the one currently being removed.
However enable_best_rng() might fail, if the next RNG's init routine
fails. In that case enable_best_rng() will return an error code and
the currently active RNG will remain active.
After unregistering this might lead to crashes due to use-after-free.
Fix this by dropping the currently active RNG, if enable_best_rng()
failed. This will result in no RNG to be active, if the next-best
one failed to initialize.
This problem was introduced by
142a27f0a731ddcf467546960a5585970ca98e21
Fixes: 142a27f0a731 ("hwrng: core - Reset user selected rng by...")
Reported-by: Wirz <spam@lukas-wirz.de>
Tested-by: Wirz <spam@lukas-wirz.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Büsch <m@bues.ch>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
void hwrng_unregister(struct hwrng *rng)
{
+ int err;
+
mutex_lock(&rng_mutex);
list_del(&rng->list);
- if (current_rng == rng)
- enable_best_rng();
+ if (current_rng == rng) {
+ err = enable_best_rng();
+ if (err) {
+ drop_current_rng();
+ cur_rng_set_by_user = 0;
+ }
+ }
if (list_empty(&rng_list)) {
mutex_unlock(&rng_mutex);