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  - macintosh/mac_hid: fix race condition in mac_hid_toggle_emumouse The following warning appears when     running syzkaller, and this issue also exists in the mainline code. ------------[ cut here ]------------     list_add double add: new=ffffffffa57eee28, prev=ffffffffa57eee28, next=ffffffffa5e63100. WARNING: CPU: 0     PID: 1491 at lib/list_debug.c:35 __list_add_valid_or_report+0xf7/0x130 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 1491     Comm: syz.1.28 Not tainted 6.6.0+ #3 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS     rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:__list_add_valid_or_report+0xf7/0x130     RSP: 0018:ff1100010dfb7b78 EFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffa57eee18 RCX:
    ffffffff97fc9817 RDX: 0000000000040000 RSI: ffa0000002383000 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: ffffffffa57eee28     R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffe21c0021bf6f2c R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 6464615f7473696c R12:
    ffffffffa5e63100 R13: ffffffffa57eee28 R14: ffffffffa57eee28 R15: ff1100010dfb7d48 FS:
    00007fb14398b640(0000) GS:ff11000119600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0:
    0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000010d096005 CR4: 0000000000773ef0 DR0: 0000000000000000     DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7:
    0000000000000400 PKRU: 80000000 Call Trace: <TASK> input_register_handler+0xb3/0x210     mac_hid_start_emulation+0x1c5/0x290 mac_hid_toggle_emumouse+0x20a/0x240 proc_sys_call_handler+0x4c2/0x6e0     new_sync_write+0x1b1/0x2d0 vfs_write+0x709/0x950 ksys_write+0x12a/0x250 do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x110     entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0xe2 The WARNING occurs when two processes concurrently write to the     mac-hid emulation sysctl, causing a race condition in mac_hid_toggle_emumouse(). Both processes read     old_val=0, then both try to register the input handler, leading to a double list_add of the same handler.
    CPU0 CPU1 ------------------------- ------------------------- vfs_write() //write 1 vfs_write() //write 1     proc_sys_write() proc_sys_write() mac_hid_toggle_emumouse() mac_hid_toggle_emumouse() old_val = *valp //     old_val=0 old_val = *valp // old_val=0 mutex_lock_killable() proc_dointvec() // *valp=1     mac_hid_start_emulation() input_register_handler() mutex_unlock() mutex_lock_killable() proc_dointvec()     mac_hid_start_emulation() input_register_handler() //Trigger Warning mutex_unlock() Fix this by moving the     old_val read inside the mutex lock region. (CVE-2025-68367)

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medium Nessus Plugin ID 279733

Version 1.9