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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] media: dvb-usb: Fix use-after-free access
Hi Takashi,

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 04:47:44PM +0100, Robert Foss wrote:
> Hey Takashi,
>
> This patch is generating a checkpatch warning, but I think it is
> spurious and can be ignored.

The checkpatch warning isn't superious and should really be corrected.

>
> Other than that, this looks good to me.
> Reviewed-by: Robert Foss <robert.foss@linaro.org>
>
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 at 12:51, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > dvb_usb_device_init() copies the properties to the own data, so that
> > the callers can release the original properties later (as done in the
> > commit 299c7007e936 "media: dw2102: Fix memleak on sequence of
> > probes"). However, it also stores dev->desc pointer that is a
> > reference to the original properties data. Since dev->desc is
> > referred later, it may result in use-after-free, in the worst case,
> > leading to a kernel Oops as reported.
> >
> > This patch addresses the problem by allocating and copying the
> > properties at first, then get the desc from the copied properties.
> >
> > Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Seyfried <seife+kernel@b1-systems.com>
> > BugLink: http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1181104
> > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Thank you for your patch. Unfortunately, it depends on the first patch
in the series, which I think has problems (see email about this).

Thanks

Sean


> > ---
> > drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c | 23 +++++++++++++----------
> > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c
> > index 5befec87f26a..07ff9b4d2f34 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c
> > @@ -255,27 +255,30 @@ int dvb_usb_device_init(struct usb_interface *intf,
> > if (du != NULL)
> > *du = NULL;
> >
> > - if ((desc = dvb_usb_find_device(udev, props, &cold)) == NULL) {
> > + d = kzalloc(sizeof(struct dvb_usb_device), GFP_KERNEL);
> > + if (!d) {
> > + err("no memory for 'struct dvb_usb_device'");
> > + return -ENOMEM;
> > + }
> > +
> > + memcpy(&d->props, props, sizeof(struct dvb_usb_device_properties));
> > +
> > + desc = dvb_usb_find_device(udev, &d->props, &cold);
> > + if (!desc) {
> > deb_err("something went very wrong, device was not found in current device list - let's see what comes next.\n");
> > - return -ENODEV;
> > + ret = -ENODEV;
> > + goto error;
> > }
> >
> > if (cold) {
> > info("found a '%s' in cold state, will try to load a firmware", desc->name);
> > ret = dvb_usb_download_firmware(udev, props);
> > if (!props->no_reconnect || ret != 0)
> > - return ret;
> > + goto error;
> > }
> >
> > info("found a '%s' in warm state.", desc->name);
> > - d = kzalloc(sizeof(struct dvb_usb_device), GFP_KERNEL);
> > - if (d == NULL) {
> > - err("no memory for 'struct dvb_usb_device'");
> > - return -ENOMEM;
> > - }
> > -
> > d->udev = udev;
> > - memcpy(&d->props, props, sizeof(struct dvb_usb_device_properties));
> > d->desc = desc;
> > d->owner = owner;
> >
> > --
> > 2.26.2
> >

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