[PATCH v2] usb: gadget: configfs: Fix use-after-free issue with udc_name

Macpaul Lin macpaul.lin at mediatek.com
Fri Jul 17 22:45:03 EDT 2020


From: Eddie Hung <eddie.hung at mediatek.com>

There is a use-after-free issue, if access udc_name
in function gadget_dev_desc_UDC_store after another context
free udc_name in function unregister_gadget.

Context 1:
gadget_dev_desc_UDC_store()->unregister_gadget()->
free udc_name->set udc_name to NULL

Context 2:
gadget_dev_desc_UDC_show()-> access udc_name

Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x0/0x340
show_stack+0x14/0x1c
dump_stack+0xe4/0x134
print_address_description+0x78/0x478
__kasan_report+0x270/0x2ec
kasan_report+0x10/0x18
__asan_report_load1_noabort+0x18/0x20
string+0xf4/0x138
vsnprintf+0x428/0x14d0
sprintf+0xe4/0x12c
gadget_dev_desc_UDC_show+0x54/0x64
configfs_read_file+0x210/0x3a0
__vfs_read+0xf0/0x49c
vfs_read+0x130/0x2b4
SyS_read+0x114/0x208
el0_svc_naked+0x34/0x38

Add mutex_lock to protect this kind of scenario.

Signed-off-by: Eddie Hung <eddie.hung at mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Macpaul Lin <macpaul.lin at mediatek.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Chen <peter.chen at nxp.com>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
---
Changes for v2:
  - Fix typo %s/contex/context, Thanks Peter.

 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c
index 9dc06a4e1b30..21110b2865b9 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c
@@ -221,9 +221,16 @@ static ssize_t gadget_dev_desc_bcdUSB_store(struct config_item *item,
 
 static ssize_t gadget_dev_desc_UDC_show(struct config_item *item, char *page)
 {
-	char *udc_name = to_gadget_info(item)->composite.gadget_driver.udc_name;
+	struct gadget_info *gi = to_gadget_info(item);
+	char *udc_name;
+	int ret;
+
+	mutex_lock(&gi->lock);
+	udc_name = gi->composite.gadget_driver.udc_name;
+	ret = sprintf(page, "%s\n", udc_name ?: "");
+	mutex_unlock(&gi->lock);
 
-	return sprintf(page, "%s\n", udc_name ?: "");
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static int unregister_gadget(struct gadget_info *gi)
-- 
2.18.0


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