Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Bluetooth: hci_sync: Avoid use-after-free in dbg for hci_remove_adv_monitor()

From: Doug Anderson
Date: Fri Jun 30 2023 - 18:25:22 EST


Hi,

On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 3:20 PM Manish Mandlik <mmandlik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Douglas,
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 3:10 PM Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> KASAN reports that there's a use-after-free in
>> hci_remove_adv_monitor(). Trawling through the disassembly, you can
>> see that the complaint is from the access in bt_dev_dbg() under the
>> HCI_ADV_MONITOR_EXT_MSFT case. The problem case happens because
>> msft_remove_monitor() can end up freeing the monitor
>> structure. Specifically:
>> hci_remove_adv_monitor() ->
>> msft_remove_monitor() ->
>> msft_remove_monitor_sync() ->
>> msft_le_cancel_monitor_advertisement_cb() ->
>> hci_free_adv_monitor()
>>
>> Moving the printout to before the memory is freed.
>>
>> Fixes: 7cf5c2978f23 ("Bluetooth: hci_sync: Refactor remove Adv Monitor")
>> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> Changes in v2:
>> - Move the print, don't stash handle in a local.
>>
>> net/bluetooth/hci_core.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c
>> index 48917c68358d..7e2ecf8a55d8 100644
>> --- a/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c
>> +++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c
>> @@ -1980,9 +1980,9 @@ static int hci_remove_adv_monitor(struct hci_dev *hdev,
>> goto free_monitor;
>>
>> case HCI_ADV_MONITOR_EXT_MSFT:
>> - status = msft_remove_monitor(hdev, monitor);
>> bt_dev_dbg(hdev, "%s remove monitor %d msft status %d",
>> hdev->name, monitor->handle, status);
>> + status = msft_remove_monitor(hdev, monitor);
>
> Thanks for catching this. But that log also prints the value of "status". So, moving "status = msft_remove_monitor(hdev, monitor);" after the print will print an incorrect value of "status".

Ah crud, you're right. :(

OK, I'll send v3 which will be back to v1 for the first patch.

-Doug