linux-kernel - [PATCH] usb: hub: Fix unbalanced reference count and memory leak

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jul 2016 15:24:34 -0700
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, Alex Elder <elder@...aro.org>,
	Johan Hovold <johan@...oldconsulting.com>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	"#4 . 4+" <stable@...r.kernel.org>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] usb: hub: Fix unbalanced reference count and memory leak

If the hub gets disconnected while the core is still activating it, this
can result in leaking memory of few USB structures.

This will happen if we have done a kref_get() from hub_activate() and
scheduled a delayed work item for HUB_INIT2/3. Now if hub_disconnect()
gets called before the delayed work expires, then we will cancel the
work from hub_quiesce(), but wouldn't do a kref_put(). And so the
unbalance.

kmemleak reports this as (with the commit e50293ef9775 backported to
3.10 kernel with other changes, though the same is true for mainline as
well):

unreferenced object 0xffffffc08af5b800 (size 1024):
  comm "khubd", pid 73, jiffies 4295051211 (age 6482.350s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    30 68 f3 8c c0 ff ff ff 00 a0 b2 2e c0 ff ff ff  0h..............
    01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 94 7d 40 c0 ff ff ff  ..........}@....
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffc0003079ec>] create_object+0x148/0x2a0
    [<ffffffc000cc150c>] kmemleak_alloc+0x80/0xbc
    [<ffffffc000303a7c>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x120/0x1ac
    [<ffffffc0006fa610>] hub_probe+0x120/0xb84
    [<ffffffc000702b20>] usb_probe_interface+0x1ec/0x298
    [<ffffffc0005d50cc>] driver_probe_device+0x160/0x374
    [<ffffffc0005d5308>] __device_attach+0x28/0x4c
    [<ffffffc0005d3164>] bus_for_each_drv+0x78/0xac
    [<ffffffc0005d4ee0>] device_attach+0x6c/0x9c
    [<ffffffc0005d42b8>] bus_probe_device+0x28/0xa0
    [<ffffffc0005d23a4>] device_add+0x324/0x604
    [<ffffffc000700fcc>] usb_set_configuration+0x660/0x6cc
    [<ffffffc00070a350>] generic_probe+0x44/0x84
    [<ffffffc000702914>] usb_probe_device+0x54/0x74
    [<ffffffc0005d50cc>] driver_probe_device+0x160/0x374
    [<ffffffc0005d5308>] __device_attach+0x28/0x4c

Fix this by putting the reference in hub_quiesce() if we canceled a
pending work.

CC: <stable@...r.kernel.org> #4.4+
Fixes: e50293ef9775 ("USB: fix invalid memory access in hub_activate()")
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
---
Greg,

This is tested over 3.10 with backported patches only, sorry didn't had
a mainline setup to test this out. :(

 drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
index bee13517676f..3173693fa8e3 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
@@ -1315,7 +1315,8 @@ static void hub_quiesce(struct usb_hub *hub, enum hub_quiescing_type type)
 	struct usb_device *hdev = hub->hdev;
 	int i;
 
-	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&hub->init_work);
+	if (cancel_delayed_work_sync(&hub->init_work))
+		kref_put(&hub->kref, hub_release);
 
 	/* hub_wq and related activity won't re-trigger */
 	hub->quiescing = 1;
-- 
2.7.4