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Message-ID: <582DC88C.5040308@linux.intel.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 17:11:08 +0200
From: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...ux.intel.com>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...el.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
dianders@...omium.org, briannorris@...omium.org, mka@...omium.org,
linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] xhci: Fix memory use after free in
xhci_free_virt_device
On 15.11.2016 22:36, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> The following use-after-free reports were seen on resume with a specific
> USB hub.
>
> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in xhci_free_virt_device+0x8c/0x21c
> at addr ffffffc0cc1a2eb0
> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in xhci_update_tt_active_eps+0x9c/0xdc
> at addr ffffffc0cc1a2eb0
>
> Relevant traceback for the first case is:
>
> xhci_free_virt_device+0x8c/0x21c
> xhci_mem_cleanup+0x294/0x81c
> xhci_resume+0x410/0x618
> xhci_plat_resume+0x54/0x74
> platform_pm_resume+0x74/0x84
>
> which points to the following code in xhci_free_virt_device().
>
> if (dev->tt_info)
> old_active_eps = dev->tt_info->active_eps;
>
> Problem with this code is that xhci_mem_cleanup() cleans up devices
> starting with slot 1, and dev->tt_info for a device with higher slot
> number can point back to the tt_info associated with device 1.
> In lsusb, this looks as follows.
>
> /: Bus 05.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci-hcd/1p, 480M
> |__ Port 1: Dev 4, If 0, Class=Hub, Driver=hub/4p, 480M
> |__ Port 3: Dev 7, If 0, Class=Vendor Specific Class, Driver=, 12M
>
> When the higher-numbered device is cleared, it tries to access the already
> released tt_info from slot 1 to get the value of old_active_eps.
>
> The problem is not seen with all USB hubs since not all USB hubs require
> the cleanup handling in xhci_resume().
>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
> ---
Thanks, nice catch.
> Marked as RFC because I don't really like this fix at all and would prefer
> a different solution.
>
I just started digging into this and see if I can come up with some solution.
It's currently a bit messy the whole thing how the tt_info and bw_table are
allocated, freed, pointed to and added and removed to/from lists
-Mathias
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