Re: [PATCH v2] usb: dwc2: fix possible NULL pointer dereference caused by driver concurrency

From: Jia-Ju Bai
Date: Mon Sep 25 2023 - 22:05:28 EST


Thanks for the reply!

I will follow the rules and revise the patch.


Best wishes,
Jia-Ju Bai

On 2023/9/25 20:08, Greg KH wrote:
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 06:07:41PM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
In _dwc2_hcd_urb_enqueue(), "urb->hcpriv = NULL" is executed without
holding the lock "hsotg->lock". In _dwc2_hcd_urb_dequeue():

spin_lock_irqsave(&hsotg->lock, flags);
...
if (!urb->hcpriv) {
dev_dbg(hsotg->dev, "## urb->hcpriv is NULL ##\n");
goto out;
}
rc = dwc2_hcd_urb_dequeue(hsotg, urb->hcpriv); // Use urb->hcpriv
...
out:
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hsotg->lock, flags);

When _dwc2_hcd_urb_enqueue() and _dwc2_hcd_urb_dequeue() are
concurrently executed, the NULL check of "urb->hcpriv" can be executed
before "urb->hcpriv = NULL". After urb->hcpriv is NULL, it can be used
in the function call to dwc2_hcd_urb_dequeue(), which can cause a NULL
pointer dereference.

This possible bug is found by a static tool developed by myself.
Because of this please follow the rules for such things as documented in
Documentation/process/researcher-guidelines.rst

To fix this possible bug, "urb->hcpriv = NULL" should be executed with
holding the lock "hsotg->lock". Because I have no associated hardware,
I cannot test the patch in real execution, and just verify it according
to the code logic.

Fixes: 33ad261aa62b ("usb: dwc2: host: spinlock urb_enqueue")
Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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