In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfc: nci: add flush_workqueue to prevent uaf

Our detector found a concurrent use-after-free bug when detaching an
NCI device. The main reason for this bug is the unexpected scheduling
between the used delayed mechanism (timer and workqueue).

The race can be demonstrated below:

Thread-1                           Thread-2
                                 | nci_dev_up()
                                 |   nci_open_device()
                                 |     __nci_request(nci_reset_req)
                                 |       nci_send_cmd
                                 |         queue_work(cmd_work)
nci_unregister_device()          |
  nci_close_device()             | ...
    del_timer_sync(cmd_timer)[1] |
...                              | Worker
nci_free_device()                | nci_cmd_work()
  kfree(ndev)[3]                 |   mod_timer(cmd_timer)[2]

In short, the cleanup routine thought that the cmd_timer has already
been detached by [1] but the mod_timer can re-attach the timer [2], even
it is already released [3], resulting in UAF.

This UAF is easy to trigger, crash trace by POC is like below

[   66.703713] ==================================================================
[   66.703974] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in enqueue_timer+0x448/0x490
[   66.703974] Write of size 8 at addr ffff888009fb7058 by task kworker/u4:1/33
[   66.703974]
[   66.703974] CPU: 1 PID: 33 Comm: kworker/u4:1 Not tainted 5.18.0-rc2 #5
[   66.703974] Workqueue: nfc2_nci_cmd_wq nci_cmd_work
[   66.703974] Call Trace:
[   66.703974]  <TASK>
[   66.703974]  dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x7d
[   66.703974]  print_report.cold+0x5e/0x5db
[   66.703974]  ? enqueue_timer+0x448/0x490
[   66.703974]  kasan_report+0xbe/0x1c0
[   66.703974]  ? enqueue_timer+0x448/0x490
[   66.703974]  enqueue_timer+0x448/0x490
[   66.703974]  __mod_timer+0x5e6/0xb80
[   66.703974]  ? mark_held_locks+0x9e/0xe0
[   66.703974]  ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0xf0/0xf0
[   66.703974]  ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x17b/0x410
[   66.703974]  ? queue_work_on+0x61/0x80
[   66.703974]  ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0xbf/0x130
[   66.703974]  process_one_work+0x8bb/0x1510
[   66.703974]  ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x410/0x410
[   66.703974]  ? pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x230/0x230
[   66.703974]  ? rwlock_bug.part.0+0x90/0x90
[   66.703974]  ? _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x41/0x50
[   66.703974]  worker_thread+0x575/0x1190
[   66.703974]  ? process_one_work+0x1510/0x1510
[   66.703974]  kthread+0x2a0/0x340
[   66.703974]  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
[   66.703974]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[   66.703974]  </TASK>
[   66.703974]
[   66.703974] Allocated by task 267:
[   66.703974]  kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
[   66.703974]  __kasan_kmalloc+0x81/0xa0
[   66.703974]  nci_allocate_device+0xd3/0x390
[   66.703974]  nfcmrvl_nci_register_dev+0x183/0x2c0
[   66.703974]  nfcmrvl_nci_uart_open+0xf2/0x1dd
[   66.703974]  nci_uart_tty_ioctl+0x2c3/0x4a0
[   66.703974]  tty_ioctl+0x764/0x1310
[   66.703974]  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x122/0x190
[   66.703974]  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[   66.703974]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
[   66.703974]
[   66.703974] Freed by task 406:
[   66.703974]  kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
[   66.703974]  kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
[   66.703974]  kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x30
[   66.703974]  __kasan_slab_free+0x108/0x170
[   66.703974]  kfree+0xb0/0x330
[   66.703974]  nfcmrvl_nci_unregister_dev+0x90/0xd0
[   66.703974]  nci_uart_tty_close+0xdf/0x180
[   66.703974]  tty_ldisc_kill+0x73/0x110
[   66.703974]  tty_ldisc_hangup+0x281/0x5b0
[   66.703974]  __tty_hangup.part.0+0x431/0x890
[   66.703974]  tty_release+0x3a8/0xc80
[   66.703974]  __fput+0x1f0/0x8c0
[   66.703974]  task_work_run+0xc9/0x170
[   66.703974]  exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x194/0x1a0
[   66.703974]  syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x19/0x50
[   66.703974]  do_syscall_64+0x48/0x90
[   66.703974]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0x
---truncated---

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a1748d0dd0f0a98535c6baeef671c8722107639

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c63ad2b0a267a524c12c88acb1ba9c2d109a801

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67677050cecbe0edfdd81cd508415e9636ba7c65

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d3232214ca4ea8f7d18df264c3b254aa8089d7f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d243aff5f7e6b04e907c617426bbdf26e996ac8

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ded5ae40f4fe37fcc28f36d76bf45df20be5432

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/edd4600120641e1714e30112e69a548cfb68e067

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef27324e2cb7bb24542d6cb2571740eefe6b00dc