Re: [PATCH v2] thermal/core: fix a UAF bug in __thermal_cooling_device_register()

[Ziyang Xuan (William)]

> On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 4:46 AM Ziyang Xuan
> <william.xuanziyang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> When device_register() return failed, program will goto out_kfree_type
>> to release 'cdev->device' by put_device(). That will call thermal_release()
>> to free 'cdev'. But the follow-up processes access 'cdev' continually.
>> That trggers the UAF bug.
>>
>> ====================================================================
>> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __thermal_cooling_device_register+0x75b/0xa90
>> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
>> Call Trace:
>>  dump_stack_lvl+0xe2/0x152
>>  print_address_description.constprop.0+0x21/0x140
>>  ? __thermal_cooling_device_register+0x75b/0xa90
>>  kasan_report.cold+0x7f/0x11b
>>  ? __thermal_cooling_device_register+0x75b/0xa90
>>  __thermal_cooling_device_register+0x75b/0xa90
>>  ? memset+0x20/0x40
>>  ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x1d/0x50
>>  ? __devres_alloc_node+0x130/0x180
>>  devm_thermal_of_cooling_device_register+0x67/0xf0
>>  max6650_probe.cold+0x557/0x6aa
>> ......
>>
>> Freed by task 258:
>>  kasan_save_stack+0x1b/0x40
>>  kasan_set_track+0x1c/0x30
>>  kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x30
>>  __kasan_slab_free+0x109/0x140
>>  kfree+0x117/0x4c0
>>  thermal_release+0xa0/0x110
>>  device_release+0xa7/0x240
>>  kobject_put+0x1ce/0x540
>>  put_device+0x20/0x30
>>  __thermal_cooling_device_register+0x731/0xa90
>>  devm_thermal_of_cooling_device_register+0x67/0xf0
>>  max6650_probe.cold+0x557/0x6aa [max6650]
>>
>> Do not use 'cdev' again after put_device() to fix the problem like doing
>> in thermal_zone_device_register().
>>
>> Fixes: 584837618100 ("thermal/drivers/core: Use a char pointer for the cooling device name")
>> Signed-off-by: Ziyang Xuan <william.xuanziyang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 7 ++++---
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
>> index 97ef9b040b84..d2c196b298c1 100644
>> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
>> @@ -888,7 +888,7 @@ __thermal_cooling_device_register(struct device_node *np,
>>  {
>>         struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev;
>>         struct thermal_zone_device *pos = NULL;
>> -       int ret;
>> +       int id, ret;
>>
>>         if (!ops || !ops->get_max_state || !ops->get_cur_state ||
>>             !ops->set_cur_state)
>> @@ -901,7 +901,7 @@ __thermal_cooling_device_register(struct device_node *np,
>>         ret = ida_simple_get(&thermal_cdev_ida, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
>>         if (ret < 0)
>>                 goto out_kfree_cdev;
>> -       cdev->id = ret;
>> +       cdev->id = id = ret;
> 
> I'd prefer this to be two statements, but I can fix it up.
> 
> Daniel, would there be any issues if I applied it?
> 
OK, no problem.

>>
>>         cdev->type = kstrdup(type ? type : "", GFP_KERNEL);
>>         if (!cdev->type) {
>> @@ -942,8 +942,9 @@ __thermal_cooling_device_register(struct device_node *np,
>>  out_kfree_type:
>>         kfree(cdev->type);
>>         put_device(&cdev->device);
>> +       cdev = NULL;
>>  out_ida_remove:
>> -       ida_simple_remove(&thermal_cdev_ida, cdev->id);
>> +       ida_simple_remove(&thermal_cdev_ida, id);
>>  out_kfree_cdev:
>>         kfree(cdev);
>>         return ERR_PTR(ret);
>> --
>> 2.25.1
>>
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