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SubjectRe: [PATCH] brcmfmac: unlink URB when request timed out
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On Tue, 2014-11-11 at 20:02 -0500, Mathy Vanhoef wrote:
> On 11/10/2014 04:08 AM, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> > Which means that you are freeing memory that may still be used by DMA
> > at this time.
> > In addition you have no guarantee that the unlink is indeed finished
> > by the time the URB is reused.
> > If you wish to take this approach you better forget about this URB
> > and allocate a new one and free the buffer from the callback.
>
> Hi Oliver,
>
> Good catch. I think the DMA issue is also present in the current driver: it
> frees the buffer without unlinking/killing the URB at all. Can a malicious USB

Yes, it is present.

> device force a timeout to occur (i.e. delay the call to the completion
> handler)? If so this might be a use-after-free vulnerability.
>
> It seems using usb_kill_urb instead of usb_unlink_urb in the patch prevents any
> possible use-after-free. Can someone double check?

usb_kill_urb() will do the job.

Regards
Oliver




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