Re: [PATCH 4.14 2/2] can: bcm: fix UAF of bcm op

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!


> From: Ziyang Xuan <william.xuanziyang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Stopping tasklet and hrtimer rely on the active state of tasklet and
> hrtimer sequentially in bcm_remove_op(), the op object will be freed
> if they are all unactive. Assume the hrtimer timeout is short, the
> hrtimer cb has been excuted after tasklet conditional judgment which
> must be false after last round tasklet_kill() and before condition
> hrtimer_active(), it is false when execute to hrtimer_active(). Bug
> is triggerd, because the stopping action is end and the op object
> will be freed, but the tasklet is scheduled. The resources of the op
> object will occur UAF bug.
> 
> Move hrtimer_cancel() behind tasklet_kill() and switch 'while () {...}'
> to 'do {...} while ()' to fix the op UAF problem.

I don't see this commit in mainline or next kernels. What is going on
here? Is it one of those "only needed in -stable" things? Or do we
still need to fix it in the mainline?

Best regards,
								Pavel
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