Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2016 15:56:33 -0600
From:	Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>
To:	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>, mchehab@....samsung.com,
	laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com, hans.verkuil@...co.com,
	chehabrafael@...il.com, sakari.ailus@....fi
Cc:	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: fix media_ioctl use-after-free when driver unbinds

On 04/27/2016 10:43 AM, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> Looks mostly good, a few comments.
> 
> On 04/27/2016 05:08 AM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> [...]
>> @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ static long media_device_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd,
>>  			       unsigned long arg)
>>  {
>>  	struct media_devnode *devnode = media_devnode_data(filp);
>> -	struct media_device *dev = to_media_device(devnode);
> 
> Can we keep the helper macro, means we don't need to touch this code.

Yeah. I have been thinking about that as well. It avoids changes
and abstracts it.

> 
>> +	struct media_device *dev = devnode->media_dev;
> 
> You need a lock to protect this from running concurrently with
> media_device_unregister() otherwise the struct might be freed while still in
> use.
> 

Right. This needs to be protected.

>>  	long ret;
>>  
>>  	switch (cmd) {
> [...]
>> @@ -725,21 +726,26 @@ int __must_check __media_device_register(struct media_device *mdev,
>>  {
>>  	int ret;
>>  
>> +	mdev->devnode = kzalloc(sizeof(struct media_devnode), GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> sizeof(*mdev->devnode) is preferred kernel style,

Yeah. Force of habit, I keep forgetting it.

> 
>> +	if (!mdev->devnode)
>> +		return -ENOMEM;
>> +
>>  	/* Register the device node. */
>> -	mdev->devnode.fops = &media_device_fops;
>> -	mdev->devnode.parent = mdev->dev;
>> -	mdev->devnode.release = media_device_release;
>> +	mdev->devnode->fops = &media_device_fops;
>> +	mdev->devnode->parent = mdev->dev;
>> +	mdev->devnode->media_dev = mdev;
>> +	mdev->devnode->release = media_device_release;
> 
> This should no longer be necessary. Just drop the release callback altogether.

It does nothing at the moment. I believe the intent is for this routine
to invoke any driver hooks if any at media_device level. It gets called
from media_devnode_release() which is the media_devnode->dev.release.
I will look into if it can be removed.

> 
>>  
>>  	/* Set version 0 to indicate user-space that the graph is static */
>>  	mdev->topology_version = 0;
>>  
> [...]
>> @@ -813,8 +819,10 @@ void media_device_unregister(struct media_device *mdev)
>>  
>>  	spin_unlock(&mdev->lock);
>>  
>> -	device_remove_file(&mdev->devnode.dev, &dev_attr_model);
>> -	media_devnode_unregister(&mdev->devnode);
>> +	device_remove_file(&mdev->devnode->dev, &dev_attr_model);
>> +	media_devnode_unregister(mdev->devnode);
>> +	/* kfree devnode is done via kobject_put() handler */
>> +	mdev->devnode = NULL;
> 
> mdev->devnode->media_dev needs to be set to NULL.

Yes. Thanks for catching it.

> 
>>  
>>  	dev_dbg(mdev->dev, "Media device unregistered\n");
>>  }
>> diff --git a/drivers/media/media-devnode.c b/drivers/media/media-devnode.c
>> index 29409f4..9af9ba1 100644
>> --- a/drivers/media/media-devnode.c
>> +++ b/drivers/media/media-devnode.c
>> @@ -171,6 +171,9 @@ static int media_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
>>  		mutex_unlock(&media_devnode_lock);
>>  		return -ENXIO;
>>  	}
>> +
>> +	kobject_get(&mdev->kobj);
> 
> This is not necessary, and if it was it would be prone to race condition as
> the last reference could be dropped before this line. But assigning the cdev
> parent makes sure that we always have a reference to the object while the
> open() callback is running.

I don't see cdev parent kobj get in cdev_get() which does kobject_get()
on cdev->kobj. Is that enough to get the reference?

cdev_add() gets the cdev parent kobj and cdev_del() puts it back. That is
the reason why I added a get here and put in media_release().

I can remove the get and put and test. Looks like I am not checking
kobject_get() return value which isn't good?

> 
>> +
>>  	/* and increase the device refcount */
>>  	get_device(&mdev->dev);
>>  	mutex_unlock(&media_devnode_lock);
>>  /*
> [...]
>> diff --git a/include/media/media-devnode.h b/include/media/media-devnode.h
>> index fe42f08..ba4bdaa 100644
>> --- a/include/media/media-devnode.h
>> +++ b/include/media/media-devnode.h
>> @@ -70,7 +70,9 @@ struct media_file_operations {
>>   * @fops:	pointer to struct &media_file_operations with media device ops
>>   * @dev:	struct device pointer for the media controller device
>>   * @cdev:	struct cdev pointer character device
>> + * @kobj:	struct kobject
>>   * @parent:	parent device
>> + * @media_dev:	media device
>>   * @minor:	device node minor number
>>   * @flags:	flags, combination of the MEDIA_FLAG_* constants
>>   * @release:	release callback called at the end of media_devnode_release()
>> @@ -87,7 +89,9 @@ struct media_devnode {
>>  	/* sysfs */
>>  	struct device dev;		/* media device */
>>  	struct cdev cdev;		/* character device */
>> +	struct kobject kobj;		/* set as cdev parent kobj */
> 
> You don't need a extra kobj. Just use the struct dev kobj.

Yeah I can use that as long as I can override the default release
function with media_devnode_free(). media_devnode should stick around
until the last app closes /dev/mediaX even if the media_device is no
longer registered. i.e media_ioctl should be able to check if devnode
is registered or not. I think I am missing something and don't understand
how struct dev kobj can be used. 

> 
>>  	struct device *parent;		/* device parent */
>> +	struct media_device *media_dev; /* media device for the devnode */
>>  
>>  	/* device info */
>>  	int minor;
> 
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