linux-kernel - Re: usb/gadget: copy_to_user called with spinlock held

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Date:   Thu, 21 Sep 2017 20:20:46 +0200
From:   Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
To:     Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:     Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
        syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: usb/gadget: copy_to_user called with spinlock held

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've got the following report while fuzzing the kernel with syzkaller.
>>
>> On commit ebb2c2437d8008d46796902ff390653822af6cc4 (Sep 18).
>>
>> Line numbers might be a little off, due to some local changes to
>> gadgetfs code but the issue is AFAIU with calling copy_to_user() with
>> spinlock held in ep0_read(). I see that there's a FIXME exactly about
>> that and I was wondering if there's any chance of getting this fixed?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> The patch below, which goes on top of the gadgetfs patch from a few
> days ago, should eliminate this problem.

This patch seems to be fixing the crashes.

Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>

Thanks once again!

>
> Alan Stern
>
>
>
> Index: usb-4.x/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c
> ===================================================================
> --- usb-4.x.orig/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c
> +++ usb-4.x/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c
> @@ -986,11 +986,14 @@ ep0_read (struct file *fd, char __user *
>                                 retval = -EIO;
>                         else {
>                                 len = min (len, (size_t)dev->req->actual);
> -// FIXME don't call this with the spinlock held ...
> +                               ++dev->udc_usage;
> +                               spin_unlock_irq(&dev->lock);
>                                 if (copy_to_user (buf, dev->req->buf, len))
>                                         retval = -EFAULT;
>                                 else
>                                         retval = len;
> +                               spin_lock_irq(&dev->lock);
> +                               --dev->udc_usage;
>                                 clean_req (dev->gadget->ep0, dev->req);
>                                 /* NOTE userspace can't yet choose to stall */
>                         }
>