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author | Eli Billauer <eli.billauer@gmail.com> | 2022-10-30 12:42:09 +0300 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2022-11-11 12:32:41 +0300 |
commit | 282a4b71816b6076029017a7bab3a9dcee12a920 (patch) | |
tree | 0fb1a6b3f663b53b068fae1ec60af058a2277e49 | |
parent | 0d4a030b3db1b53498f1c1ae243677fa0dd2e7ce (diff) | |
download | linux-282a4b71816b6076029017a7bab3a9dcee12a920.tar.xz |
char: xillybus: Prevent use-after-free due to race condition
The driver for XillyUSB devices maintains a kref reference count on each
xillyusb_dev structure, which represents a physical device. This reference
count reaches zero when the device has been disconnected and there are no
open file descriptors that are related to the device. When this occurs,
kref_put() calls cleanup_dev(), which clears up the device's data,
including the structure itself.
However, when xillyusb_open() is called, this reference count becomes
tricky: This function needs to obtain the xillyusb_dev structure that
relates to the inode's major and minor (as there can be several such).
xillybus_find_inode() (which is defined in xillybus_class.c) is called
for this purpose. xillybus_find_inode() holds a mutex that is global in
xillybus_class.c to protect the list of devices, and releases this
mutex before returning. As a result, nothing protects the xillyusb_dev's
reference counter from being decremented to zero before xillyusb_open()
increments it on its own behalf. Hence the structure can be freed
due to a rare race condition.
To solve this, a mutex is added. It is locked by xillyusb_open() before
the call to xillybus_find_inode() and is released only after the kref
counter has been incremented on behalf of the newly opened inode. This
protects the kref reference counters of all xillyusb_dev structs from
being decremented by xillyusb_disconnect() during this time segment, as
the call to kref_put() in this function is done with the same lock held.
There is no need to hold the lock on other calls to kref_put(), because
if xillybus_find_inode() finds a struct, xillyusb_disconnect() has not
made the call to remove it, and hence not made its call to kref_put(),
which takes place afterwards. Hence preventing xillyusb_disconnect's
call to kref_put() is enough to ensure that the reference doesn't reach
zero before it's incremented by xillyusb_open().
It would have been more natural to increment the reference count in
xillybus_find_inode() of course, however this function is also called by
Xillybus' driver for PCIe / OF, which registers a completely different
structure. Therefore, xillybus_find_inode() treats these structures as
void pointers, and accordingly can't make any changes.
Reported-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eli Billauer <eli.billauer@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221030094209.65916-1-eli.billauer@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/xillybus/xillyusb.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/xillybus/xillyusb.c b/drivers/char/xillybus/xillyusb.c index 39bcbfd908b4..5a5afa14ca8c 100644 --- a/drivers/char/xillybus/xillyusb.c +++ b/drivers/char/xillybus/xillyusb.c @@ -184,6 +184,14 @@ struct xillyusb_dev { struct mutex process_in_mutex; /* synchronize wakeup_all() */ }; +/* + * kref_mutex is used in xillyusb_open() to prevent the xillyusb_dev + * struct from being freed during the gap between being found by + * xillybus_find_inode() and having its reference count incremented. + */ + +static DEFINE_MUTEX(kref_mutex); + /* FPGA to host opcodes */ enum { OPCODE_DATA = 0, @@ -1237,9 +1245,16 @@ static int xillyusb_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) int rc; int index; + mutex_lock(&kref_mutex); + rc = xillybus_find_inode(inode, (void **)&xdev, &index); - if (rc) + if (rc) { + mutex_unlock(&kref_mutex); return rc; + } + + kref_get(&xdev->kref); + mutex_unlock(&kref_mutex); chan = &xdev->channels[index]; filp->private_data = chan; @@ -1275,8 +1290,6 @@ static int xillyusb_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) ((filp->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) && chan->open_for_write)) goto unmutex_fail; - kref_get(&xdev->kref); - if (filp->f_mode & FMODE_READ) chan->open_for_read = 1; @@ -1413,6 +1426,7 @@ unopen: return rc; unmutex_fail: + kref_put(&xdev->kref, cleanup_dev); mutex_unlock(&chan->lock); return rc; } @@ -2227,7 +2241,9 @@ static void xillyusb_disconnect(struct usb_interface *interface) xdev->dev = NULL; + mutex_lock(&kref_mutex); kref_put(&xdev->kref, cleanup_dev); + mutex_unlock(&kref_mutex); } static struct usb_driver xillyusb_driver = { |