Re: [PATCH 0/5] HID: manually unregister leds on device removal to prevent UAFs

[Donald Buczek]

Is this series in a queue somewhere? Seems rather important and I don't find progress.

Also, should be cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx , right?

CVE-2023-25012

Best

  Donald

On 1/26/23 1:24 AM, Pietro Borrello wrote:
> I noticed a recurring pattern is present in multiple hid devices in the
> Linux tree, where the LED controller of a device schedules a work_struct
> to interact with the hardware.
> The work_struct is embedded in the device structure and thus, is freed
> at device removal.
> 
> The issue is that a LED worker may be scheduled by a timer concurrently
> with device removal, causing the work_struct to be accessed after having
> been freed.
> I was able to trigger the issue in hid-bigbenff.c and hid-asus.c 
> where the work_structs may be scheduled by the LED controller
> while the device is disconnecting, triggering use-after-frees.
> I can attach the reproducer, but it's very simple USB configuration, 
> using the /dev/raw-gadget interface with some more USB interactions 
> to manage LEDs configuration and pass checks in asus_kbd_init() 
> and asus_kbd_get_functions() in case of hid-asus.c.
> I triggered the issue by connecting a device and immediately 
> disconnecting it, so that the remove function runs before the LED one
> which remains pending.
> 
> More drivers have the same pattern (hid-lg-g15.c, hid-playstation.c,
> hid-sony.c) but I wasn't able to properly pass the right descriptors
> to trigger the led configurations needed to trigger the workers.
> Some other drivers manually unregister at removal (hid-corsair.c,
> hid-gt683r.c, hid-lenovo.c) since they do not use the managed
> interface, which is safe, to my understanding.
> Also, a similar pattern is present with callbacks which schedule
> a worker originating from input_ff_create_memless() (e.g.,
> in hid-bigbenff.c) but in these cases, I wasn't able to trigger
> the race condition with the event handling to schedule the worker
> during device removal. However, I have no experience with the USB
> protocol and I'm not able to say that they cannot be triggered.
> 
> I am currently wondering if this is due to some emulation of the
> /dev/raw-gadget interface or if it's effectively an issue with how each
> device manages resource removal.
> But I wonder why syzkaller didn't find any crash while fuzzing the
> interface with upstream-usb.config, as they seem pretty
> straightforward to trigger.
> Configuring the kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS, it emits
> a warning in debug_check_no_obj_freed, which makes it clear that
> device removal is freeing resources in use.
> KASAN detects them as use-after-free.
> 
> I am attaching multiple patches for all the drivers I suspect the bug
> is present.
> The proposed patches unregister the LED controllers before removing the
> device itself.
> 
> I attach the (partial for brevity) ODEBUG dumps:
> 
> ```hid-bigbenff.c
> [   37.803135][ T1170] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 2
> [   37.827979][ T1170] ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object
> type: work_struct hint: bigben_worker+0x0/0x860
> [   37.829634][ T1170] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1170 at
> lib/debugobjects.c:505 debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x43a/0x630
> [   37.830904][ T1170] Modules linked in:
> [   37.831413][ T1170] CPU: 0 PID: 1170 Comm: kworker/0:3 Not tainted
> 6.1.0-rc4-dirty #43
> [   37.832465][ T1170] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX,
> 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
> [   37.833751][ T1170] Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event
> [   37.834409][ T1170] RIP: 0010:debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x43a/0x630
> [   37.835218][ T1170] Code: 48 89 ef e8 28 82 58 ff 49 8b 14 24 4c 8b
> 45 00 48 c7 c7 40 5f 09 87 48 c7 c6 60 5b 09 87 89 d9 4d 89 f9 31 c0
> e8 46 25 ef fe <0f> 0b 4c 8b 64 24 20 48 ba 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df ff
> 05 4f 7c 17
> [   37.837667][ T1170] RSP: 0018:ffffc900006fee60 EFLAGS: 00010246
> [   37.838503][ T1170] RAX: 0d2d19ffcded3d00 RBX: 0000000000000000
> RCX: ffff888117fc9b00
> [   37.839519][ T1170] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000
> RDI: 0000000000000000
> [   37.840570][ T1170] RBP: ffffffff86e88380 R08: ffffffff8130793b
> R09: fffff520000dfd85
> [   37.841618][ T1170] R10: fffff520000dfd85 R11: 0000000000000000
> R12: ffffffff87095fb8
> [   37.842649][ T1170] R13: ffff888117770ad8 R14: ffff888117770acc
> R15: ffffffff852b7420
> [   37.843728][ T1170] FS:  0000000000000000(0000)
> GS:ffff8881f6600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [   37.844877][ T1170] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [   37.845749][ T1170] CR2: 00007f992eaab380 CR3: 000000011834b000
> CR4: 00000000001006f0
> [   37.846794][ T1170] Call Trace:
> [   37.847245][ T1170]  <TASK>
> [   37.847643][ T1170]  slab_free_freelist_hook+0x89/0x160
> [   37.848409][ T1170]  ? devres_release_all+0x262/0x350
> [   37.849156][ T1170]  __kmem_cache_free+0x71/0x110
> [   37.849829][ T1170]  devres_release_all+0x262/0x350
> [   37.850478][ T1170]  ? devres_release+0x90/0x90
> [   37.851118][ T1170]  device_release_driver_internal+0x5e5/0x8a0
> [   37.851944][ T1170]  bus_remove_device+0x2ea/0x400
> [   37.852611][ T1170]  device_del+0x64f/0xb40
> [   37.853212][ T1170]  ? kill_device+0x150/0x150
> [   37.853831][ T1170]  ? print_irqtrace_events+0x1f0/0x1f0
> [   37.854564][ T1170]  hid_destroy_device+0x66/0x100
> [   37.855226][ T1170]  usbhid_disconnect+0x9a/0xc0
> [   37.855887][ T1170]  usb_unbind_interface+0x1e1/0x890
> ```
> 
> ``` hid-asus.c
> [   77.409878][ T1169] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 2
> [   77.423606][ T1169] ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object
> type: work_struct hint: asus_kbd_backlight_work+0x0/0x2c0
> [   77.425222][ T1169] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1169 at
> lib/debugobjects.c:505 debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x43a/0x630
> [   77.426599][ T1169] Modules linked in:
> [   77.427322][ T1169] CPU: 0 PID: 1169 Comm: kworker/0:3 Not tainted
> 6.1.0-rc4-dirty #43
> [   77.428404][ T1169] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX,
> 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
> [   77.429644][ T1169] Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event
> [   77.430296][ T1169] RIP: 0010:debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x43a/0x630
> [   77.431142][ T1169] Code: 48 89 ef e8 28 82 58 ff 49 8b 14 24 4c 8b
> 45 00 48 c7 c7 40 5f 09 87 48 c7 c6 60 5b 09 87 89 d9 4d 89 f9 31 c0
> e8 46 25 ef fe <0f> 0b 4c 8b 64 24 20 48 ba 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df ff
> 05 4f 7c 17
> [   77.433691][ T1169] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000069ee60 EFLAGS: 00010246
> [   77.434470][ T1169] RAX: b85d2b40c12d7600 RBX: 0000000000000000
> RCX: ffff888117a78000
> [   77.435507][ T1169] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000080000000
> RDI: 0000000000000000
> [   77.436521][ T1169] RBP: ffffffff86e88380 R08: ffffffff8130793b
> R09: ffffed103ecc4ed6
> [   77.437582][ T1169] R10: ffffed103ecc4ed6 R11: 0000000000000000
> R12: ffffffff87095fb8
> [   77.438593][ T1169] R13: ffff88810e348fe0 R14: ffff88810e348fd4
> R15: ffffffff852b5780
> [   77.439667][ T1169] FS:  0000000000000000(0000)
> GS:ffff8881f6600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [   77.440842][ T1169] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [   77.441688][ T1169] CR2: 00007ffc05495ff0 CR3: 000000010cdf0000
> CR4: 00000000001006f0
> [   77.442720][ T1169] Call Trace:
> [   77.443167][ T1169]  <TASK>
> [   77.443555][ T1169]  slab_free_freelist_hook+0x89/0x160
> [   77.444302][ T1169]  ? devres_release_all+0x262/0x350
> [   77.444990][ T1169]  __kmem_cache_free+0x71/0x110
> [   77.445638][ T1169]  devres_release_all+0x262/0x350
> [   77.446309][ T1169]  ? devres_release+0x90/0x90
> [   77.446978][ T1169]  device_release_driver_internal+0x5e5/0x8a0
> [   77.447748][ T1169]  bus_remove_device+0x2ea/0x400
> [   77.448421][ T1169]  device_del+0x64f/0xb40
> [   77.448976][ T1169]  ? kill_device+0x150/0x150
> [   77.449577][ T1169]  ? print_irqtrace_events+0x1f0/0x1f0
> [   77.450307][ T1169]  hid_destroy_device+0x66/0x100
> [   77.450938][ T1169]  usbhid_disconnect+0x9a/0xc0
> ```
> 
> To: Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Hanno Zulla <kontakt@xxxxxxxx>
> To: Carlo Caione <carlo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
> To: Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Roderick Colenbrander <roderick.colenbrander@xxxxxxxx>
> To: Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-leds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Cristiano Giuffrida <c.giuffrida@xxxxx>
> Cc: "Bos, H.J." <h.j.bos@xxxxx>
> Cc: Jakob Koschel <jkl820.git@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-input@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Roderick Colenbrander <roderick@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Pietro Borrello <borrello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
> Pietro Borrello (5):
>       HID: bigben_remove: manually unregister leds
>       HID: asus_remove: manually unregister led
>       HID: dualsense_remove: manually unregister leds
>       HID: dualshock4_remove: manually unregister leds
>       HID: sony_remove: manually unregister leds
> 
>  drivers/hid/hid-asus.c        | 1 +
>  drivers/hid/hid-bigbenff.c    | 5 +++++
>  drivers/hid/hid-playstation.c | 8 ++++++++
>  drivers/hid/hid-sony.c        | 8 ++++++++
>  4 files changed, 22 insertions(+)
> ---
> base-commit: 2241ab53cbb5cdb08a6b2d4688feb13971058f65
> change-id: 20230125-hid-unregister-leds-4cbf67099e1d
> 
> Best regards,
> 


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