linux-cve-announce - CVE-2024-26893: firmware: arm_scmi: Fix double free in SMC transport cleanup path

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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:29:08 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2024-26893: firmware: arm_scmi: Fix double free in SMC transport cleanup path

Description
===========

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

firmware: arm_scmi: Fix double free in SMC transport cleanup path

When the generic SCMI code tears down a channel, it calls the chan_free
callback function, defined by each transport. Since multiple protocols
might share the same transport_info member, chan_free() might want to
clean up the same member multiple times within the given SCMI transport
implementation. In this case, it is SMC transport. This will lead to a NULL
pointer dereference at the second time:

    | scmi_protocol scmi_dev.1: Enabled polling mode TX channel - prot_id:16
    | arm-scmi firmware:scmi: SCMI Notifications - Core Enabled.
    | arm-scmi firmware:scmi: unable to communicate with SCMI
    | Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
    | Mem abort info:
    |   ESR = 0x0000000096000004
    |   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
    |   SET = 0, FnV = 0
    |   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
    |   FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
    | Data abort info:
    |   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000
    |   CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
    |   GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
    | user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000881ef8000
    | [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
    | Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
    | Modules linked in:
    | CPU: 4 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc2-00124-g455ef3d016c9-dirty #793
    | Hardware name: FVP Base RevC (DT)
    | pstate: 61400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
    | pc : smc_chan_free+0x3c/0x6c
    | lr : smc_chan_free+0x3c/0x6c
    | Call trace:
    |  smc_chan_free+0x3c/0x6c
    |  idr_for_each+0x68/0xf8
    |  scmi_cleanup_channels.isra.0+0x2c/0x58
    |  scmi_probe+0x434/0x734
    |  platform_probe+0x68/0xd8
    |  really_probe+0x110/0x27c
    |  __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x12c
    |  driver_probe_device+0x3c/0x118
    |  __driver_attach+0x74/0x128
    |  bus_for_each_dev+0x78/0xe0
    |  driver_attach+0x24/0x30
    |  bus_add_driver+0xe4/0x1e8
    |  driver_register+0x60/0x128
    |  __platform_driver_register+0x28/0x34
    |  scmi_driver_init+0x84/0xc0
    |  do_one_initcall+0x78/0x33c
    |  kernel_init_freeable+0x2b8/0x51c
    |  kernel_init+0x24/0x130
    |  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
    | Code: f0004701 910a0021 aa1403e5 97b91c70 (b9400280)
    | ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Simply check for the struct pointer being NULL before trying to access
its members, to avoid this situation.

This was found when a transport doesn't really work (for instance no SMC
service), the probe routines then tries to clean up, and triggers a crash.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-26893 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 5.8 with commit 1dc6558062da and fixed in 6.1.83 with commit 0d276d9f335f
	Issue introduced in 5.8 with commit 1dc6558062da and fixed in 6.6.23 with commit 857f56db8c3a
	Issue introduced in 5.8 with commit 1dc6558062da and fixed in 6.7.11 with commit 8ffaa17ccb1e
	Issue introduced in 5.8 with commit 1dc6558062da and fixed in 6.8.2 with commit ead445dd3d68
	Issue introduced in 5.8 with commit 1dc6558062da and fixed in 6.9-rc1 with commit f1d71576d2c9

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2024-26893
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/smc.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d276d9f335f41d6524258d58c0c0241ef9a83a4
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/857f56db8c3a71f9871922b6984ff74ad588cb2c
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ffaa17ccb1eb1b65cf85db63225a3581c303773
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ead445dd3d681020af333649a27306160eee761d
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1d71576d2c9ec8fdb822173fa7f3de79475e9bd