Message-ID: <2025091515-CVE-2023-53235-1104@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:22:09 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53235: drm/tests: helpers: Avoid a driver uaf

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

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

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

drm/tests: helpers: Avoid a driver uaf

when using __drm_kunit_helper_alloc_drm_device() the driver may be
dereferenced by device-managed resources up until the device is
freed, which is typically later than the kunit-managed resource code
frees it. Fix this by simply make the driver device-managed as well.

In short, the sequence leading to the UAF is as follows:

INIT:
Code allocates a struct device as a kunit-managed resource.
Code allocates a drm driver as a kunit-managed resource.
Code allocates a drm device as a device-managed resource.

EXIT:
Kunit resource cleanup frees the drm driver
Kunit resource cleanup puts the struct device, which starts a
      device-managed resource cleanup
device-managed cleanup calls drm_dev_put()
drm_dev_put() dereferences the (now freed) drm driver -> Boom.

Related KASAN message:
[55272.551542] ==================================================================
[55272.551551] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in drm_dev_put.part.0+0xd4/0xe0 [drm]
[55272.551603] Read of size 8 at addr ffff888127502828 by task kunit_try_catch/10353

[55272.551612] CPU: 4 PID: 10353 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G     U           N 6.5.0-rc7+ #155
[55272.551620] Hardware name: ASUS System Product Name/PRIME B560M-A AC, BIOS 0403 01/26/2021
[55272.551626] Call Trace:
[55272.551629]  <TASK>
[55272.551633]  dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x90
[55272.551639]  print_report+0xcf/0x630
[55272.551645]  ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x5f/0x70
[55272.551652]  ? drm_dev_put.part.0+0xd4/0xe0 [drm]
[55272.551694]  kasan_report+0xd7/0x110
[55272.551699]  ? drm_dev_put.part.0+0xd4/0xe0 [drm]
[55272.551742]  drm_dev_put.part.0+0xd4/0xe0 [drm]
[55272.551783]  devres_release_all+0x15d/0x1f0
[55272.551790]  ? __pfx_devres_release_all+0x10/0x10
[55272.551797]  device_unbind_cleanup+0x16/0x1a0
[55272.551802]  device_release_driver_internal+0x3e5/0x540
[55272.551808]  ? kobject_put+0x5d/0x4b0
[55272.551814]  bus_remove_device+0x1f1/0x3f0
[55272.551819]  device_del+0x342/0x910
[55272.551826]  ? __pfx_device_del+0x10/0x10
[55272.551830]  ? lock_release+0x339/0x5e0
[55272.551836]  ? kunit_remove_resource+0x128/0x290 [kunit]
[55272.551845]  ? __pfx_lock_release+0x10/0x10
[55272.551851]  platform_device_del.part.0+0x1f/0x1e0
[55272.551856]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x30/0x60
[55272.551863]  kunit_remove_resource+0x195/0x290 [kunit]
[55272.551871]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x30/0x60
[55272.551877]  kunit_cleanup+0x78/0x120 [kunit]
[55272.551885]  ? __kthread_parkme+0xc1/0x1f0
[55272.551891]  ? __pfx_kunit_try_run_case_cleanup+0x10/0x10 [kunit]
[55272.551900]  ? __pfx_kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x10/0x10 [kunit]
[55272.551909]  kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x4a/0x90 [kunit]
[55272.551919]  kthread+0x2e7/0x3c0
[55272.551924]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[55272.551929]  ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
[55272.551935]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[55272.551940]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
[55272.551948]  </TASK>

[55272.551953] Allocated by task 10351:
[55272.551956]  kasan_save_stack+0x1c/0x40
[55272.551962]  kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
[55272.551966]  __kasan_kmalloc+0x8b/0x90
[55272.551970]  __kmalloc+0x5e/0x160
[55272.551976]  kunit_kmalloc_array+0x1c/0x50 [kunit]
[55272.551984]  drm_exec_test_init+0xfa/0x2c0 [drm_exec_test]
[55272.551991]  kunit_try_run_case+0xdd/0x250 [kunit]
[55272.551999]  kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x4a/0x90 [kunit]
[55272.552008]  kthread+0x2e7/0x3c0
[55272.552012]  ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
[55272.552017]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30

[55272.552024] Freed by task 10353:
[55272.552027]  kasan_save_stack+0x1c/0x40
[55272.552032]  kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
[55272.552036]  kasan_save_free_info+0x27/0x40
[55272.552041]  __kasan_slab_free+0x106/0x180
[55272.552046]  slab_free_freelist_hook+0xb3/0x160
[55272.552051]  __kmem_cache_free+0xb2/0x290
[55272.552056]  kunit_remove_resource+0x195/0x290 [kunit]
[55272.552064]  kunit_cleanup+0x78/0x120 [kunit]
[55272.552072]  kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x4a/0x90 [kunit]
[55272.552080]  kthread+0x2e7/0x3c0
[55272.552085]  ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
[55272.552089]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30

[55272.552096] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888127502800
                which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
[55272.552105] The buggy address is located 40 bytes inside of
                freed 512-byte region [ffff888127502800, ffff888127502a00)

[55272.552115] The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
[55272.552119] page:00000000af6c70ff refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x127500
[55272.552127] head:00000000af6c70ff order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
[55272.552133] anon flags: 0x17ffffc0010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
[55272.552141] page_type: 0xffffffff()
[55272.552145] raw: 0017ffffc0010200 ffff888100042c80 0000000000000000 dead000000000001
[55272.552152] raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080200020 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
[55272.552157] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

[55272.552163] Memory state around the buggy address:
[55272.552167]  ffff888127502700: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
[55272.552173]  ffff888127502780: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
[55272.552178] >ffff888127502800: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
[55272.552184]                                   ^
[55272.552187]  ffff888127502880: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
[55272.552193]  ffff888127502900: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
[55272.552198] ==================================================================
[55272.552203] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint

v2:
- Update commit message, add Fixes: tag and Cc stable.
v3:
- Further commit message updates (Maxime Ripard).

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53235 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.3 with commit d98780310719bf4076d975c2ff65c44c7c0d929e and fixed in 6.5.5 with commit c9d8be0e533738b744abb669263c4750d4830009
	Issue introduced in 6.3 with commit d98780310719bf4076d975c2ff65c44c7c0d929e and fixed in 6.6 with commit 139a27854bf5ce93ff9805f9f7683b88c13074dc

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-2023-53235
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:
	include/drm/drm_kunit_helpers.h


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/c9d8be0e533738b744abb669263c4750d4830009
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/139a27854bf5ce93ff9805f9f7683b88c13074dc

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