linux-kernel - [PATCH] cpufreq: Fix an use-after-free in gov_attr_set

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Message-ID: <20210914203542.209-1-quic_qiancai@quicinc.com>
Date:   Tue, 14 Sep 2021 16:35:42 -0400
From:   Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@...cinc.com>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
CC:     Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Kevin Hao <haokexin@...il.com>, <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@...cinc.com>
Subject: [PATCH] cpufreq: Fix an use-after-free in gov_attr_set_put

A recent commit started to call sugov_tunables_free() in
kobject_release() which results in an use-after-free when
mutex_destroy() is called later in gov_attr_set_put(). Fixed it by
calling mutex_destroy() before kobject_put().

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in mutex_is_locked+0x24/0x60
Read of size 8 at addr ffff000877717950 by task cpuhp/0/15

Call trace:
 dump_backtrace+0x0/0x3b8
 show_stack+0x20/0x30
 dump_stack_lvl+0x8c/0xb8
 print_address_description.constprop.0+0x74/0x3c8
 kasan_report+0x1f0/0x208
 kasan_check_range+0x100/0x1b8
 __kasan_check_read+0x34/0x60
 mutex_is_locked+0x24/0x60
 mutex_destroy+0x7c/0xf8
 gov_attr_set_put+0x140/0x1b0
 sugov_exit+0x7c/0x198
 cpufreq_exit_governor+0x78/0x178
 cpufreq_offline+0x2f8/0x6f8
 cpuhp_cpufreq_offline+0x18/0x28
 cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x51c/0x2ab8
 cpuhp_thread_fun+0x204/0x588
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x3f0/0xc40
 kthread+0x3bc/0x470
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Allocated by task 638:
 kasan_save_stack+0x28/0x58
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x8c/0xb0
 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x21c/0x358
 sugov_init+0x478/0x768
 cpufreq_init_governor+0x11c/0x318
 cpufreq_set_policy+0x5d0/0xd88
 cpufreq_online+0x72c/0x1938
 cpufreq_add_dev+0x154/0x1a8
 subsys_interface_register+0x218/0x360
 cpufreq_register_driver+0x2a4/0x4c0
 0xffff8000098d0348
 do_one_initcall+0x160/0xb48
 do_init_module+0x18c/0x648
 load_module+0x2614/0x3238
 __do_sys_finit_module+0x118/0x1a8
 __arm64_sys_finit_module+0x74/0xa8
 invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0xdc/0x1d8
 do_el0_svc+0x1f8/0x298
 el0_svc+0x64/0x130
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb8
 el0t_64_sync+0x180/0x184

Freed by task 15:
 kasan_save_stack+0x28/0x58
 kasan_set_track+0x28/0x40
 kasan_set_free_info+0x28/0x50
 __kasan_slab_free+0xfc/0x150
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x108/0x200
 kfree+0x13c/0x3b8
 sugov_tunables_free+0x18/0x28
 kobject_release+0xe4/0x360
 kobject_put+0x7c/0x138
 gov_attr_set_put+0x138/0x1b0
 sugov_exit+0x7c/0x198
 cpufreq_exit_governor+0x78/0x178
 cpufreq_offline+0x2f8/0x6f8
 cpuhp_cpufreq_offline+0x18/0x28
 cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x51c/0x2ab8
 cpuhp_thread_fun+0x204/0x588
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x3f0/0xc40
 kthread+0x3bc/0x470
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff000877717900
                which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256
The buggy address is located 80 bytes inside of
                256-byte region [ffff000877717900, ffff000877717a00)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffffc0021ddc40 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x8f771
flags: 0x7ffff800000200(slab|node=0|zone=0|lastcpupid=0xfffff)
raw: 007ffff800000200 ffffffc0021a6508 ffffffc0022bd488 ffff000012910980
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000400040 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff000877717800: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff000877717880: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff000877717900: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                 ^
 ffff000877717980: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff000877717a00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc

Fixes: e5c6b312ce3c ("cpufreq: schedutil: Use kobject release() method to free sugov_tunables")
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@...cinc.com>
---
 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor_attr_set.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor_attr_set.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor_attr_set.c
index 66b05a326910..a6f365b9cc1a 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor_attr_set.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor_attr_set.c
@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ unsigned int gov_attr_set_put(struct gov_attr_set *attr_set, struct list_head *l
 	if (count)
 		return count;
 
-	kobject_put(&attr_set->kobj);
 	mutex_destroy(&attr_set->update_lock);
+	kobject_put(&attr_set->kobj);
 	return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gov_attr_set_put);
-- 
2.25.1