netdev - [PATCH net] net: dsa: sja1105: fix use-after-free after calling of_find_compatible

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Message-Id: <20210817145245.3555077-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Date:   Tue, 17 Aug 2021 17:52:45 +0300
From:   Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net] net: dsa: sja1105: fix use-after-free after calling of_find_compatible_node, or worse

It seems that of_find_compatible_node has a weird calling convention in
which it calls of_node_put() on the "from" node argument, instead of
leaving that up to the caller. This comes from the fact that
of_find_compatible_node with a non-NULL "from" argument it only supposed
to be used as the iterator function of for_each_compatible_node(). OF
iterator functions call of_node_get on the next OF node and of_node_put()
on the previous one.

When of_find_compatible_node calls of_node_put, it actually never
expects the refcount to drop to zero, because the call is done under the
atomic devtree_lock context, and when the refcount drops to zero it
triggers a kobject and a sysfs file deletion, which assume blocking
context.

So any driver call to of_find_compatible_node is probably buggy because
an unexpected of_node_put() takes place.

What should be done is to use the of_get_compatible_child() function.

Fixes: 5a8f09748ee7 ("net: dsa: sja1105: register the MDIO buses for 100base-T1 and 100base-TX")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210814010139.kzryimmp4rizlznt@skbuf/
Suggested-by: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>
Suggested-by: Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
---
 drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_mdio.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_mdio.c b/drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_mdio.c
index 19aea8fb76f6..705d3900e43a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_mdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_mdio.c
@@ -284,8 +284,7 @@ static int sja1105_mdiobus_base_tx_register(struct sja1105_private *priv,
 	struct mii_bus *bus;
 	int rc = 0;

-	np = of_find_compatible_node(mdio_node, NULL,
-				     "nxp,sja1110-base-tx-mdio");
+	np = of_get_compatible_child(mdio_node, "nxp,sja1110-base-tx-mdio");
 	if (!np)
 		return 0;

@@ -339,8 +338,7 @@ static int sja1105_mdiobus_base_t1_register(struct sja1105_private *priv,
 	struct mii_bus *bus;
 	int rc = 0;

-	np = of_find_compatible_node(mdio_node, NULL,
-				     "nxp,sja1110-base-t1-mdio");
+	np = of_get_compatible_child(mdio_node, "nxp,sja1110-base-t1-mdio");
 	if (!np)
 		return 0;

-- 
2.25.1