Re: [PATCH] spmi: mediatek: Fix UAF on device remove

From: Chen-Yu Tsai
Date: Sun Aug 20 2023 - 23:36:52 EST


On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 05:39:35PM +0800, Yu-Che Cheng wrote:
> The pmif driver data that contains the clocks is allocated along with
> spmi_controller.
> On device remove, spmi_controller will be freed first, and then devres
> , including the clocks, will be cleanup.
> This leads to UAF because putting the clocks will access the clocks in
> the pmif driver data, which is already freed along with spmi_controller.
>
> This can be reproduced by enabling DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE and
> building the kernel with KASAN.
>
> Fix the UAF issue by using unmanaged clk_bulk_get() and putting the
> clocks before freeing spmi_controller.
>
> Reported-by: Fei Shao <fshao@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yu-Che Cheng <giver@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Stephen, could you pick this up?

> ---
>
> drivers/spmi/spmi-mtk-pmif.c | 7 +++++--
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/spmi/spmi-mtk-pmif.c b/drivers/spmi/spmi-mtk-pmif.c
> index b3c991e1ea40..74b73f9bc222 100644
> --- a/drivers/spmi/spmi-mtk-pmif.c
> +++ b/drivers/spmi/spmi-mtk-pmif.c
> @@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ static int mtk_spmi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> for (i = 0; i < arb->nclks; i++)
> arb->clks[i].id = pmif_clock_names[i];
>
> - err = devm_clk_bulk_get(&pdev->dev, arb->nclks, arb->clks);
> + err = clk_bulk_get(&pdev->dev, arb->nclks, arb->clks);
> if (err) {
> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to get clocks: %d\n", err);
> goto err_put_ctrl;
> @@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ static int mtk_spmi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> err = clk_bulk_prepare_enable(arb->nclks, arb->clks);
> if (err) {
> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to enable clocks: %d\n", err);
> - goto err_put_ctrl;
> + goto err_put_clks;
> }
>
> ctrl->cmd = pmif_arb_cmd;
> @@ -498,6 +498,8 @@ static int mtk_spmi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> err_domain_remove:
> clk_bulk_disable_unprepare(arb->nclks, arb->clks);
> +err_put_clks:
> + clk_bulk_put(arb->nclks, arb->clks);
> err_put_ctrl:
> spmi_controller_put(ctrl);
> return err;
> @@ -509,6 +511,7 @@ static void mtk_spmi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> struct pmif *arb = spmi_controller_get_drvdata(ctrl);
>
> clk_bulk_disable_unprepare(arb->nclks, arb->clks);
> + clk_bulk_put(arb->nclks, arb->clks);
> spmi_controller_remove(ctrl);
> spmi_controller_put(ctrl);

Maybe we need devres versions of spmi_controller_alloc and
spmi_controller_add to avoid this in the future? I'm sure
drivers put all sorts of stuff in their private data.

ChenYu

> }
> --
> 2.41.0.255.g8b1d071c50-goog
>