[PATCH v2] dmaengine: sun6i-dma: Fix use-after-free in error handling paths
Hongling Zeng
zenghongling at kylinos.cn
Sun Jun 14 19:23:59 PDT 2026
In error handling paths, the for loop frees v_lli in the loop body,
then accesses v_lli->v_lli_next and v_lli->p_lli_next in the
increment expression, which is use-after-free.
Fix by saving both the next virtual and physical pointers before
freeing the current node.
Fixes: 555859308723 ("dmaengine: Add driver for Allwinner sun6i DMA")
Signed-off-by: Hongling Zeng <zenghongling at kylinos.cn>
Suggested-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec at gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
-Refactored the fix to avoid code duplication by creating a helper function
sun6i_dma_free_lli_list() that handles LLI list cleanup
-Add Suggested-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec at gmail.com>
---
drivers/dma/sun6i-dma.c | 26 ++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/dma/sun6i-dma.c b/drivers/dma/sun6i-dma.c
index a9a254dbf8cb..02dd07001d5a 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/sun6i-dma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/sun6i-dma.c
@@ -406,16 +406,12 @@ static inline void sun6i_dma_dump_lli(struct sun6i_vchan *vchan,
v_lli->len, v_lli->para, v_lli->p_lli_next);
}
-static void sun6i_dma_free_desc(struct virt_dma_desc *vd)
+static void sun6i_dma_free_lli_list(struct sun6i_dma_dev *sdev,
+ struct sun6i_desc *txd)
{
- struct sun6i_desc *txd = to_sun6i_desc(&vd->tx);
- struct sun6i_dma_dev *sdev = to_sun6i_dma_dev(vd->tx.chan->device);
struct sun6i_dma_lli *v_lli, *v_next;
dma_addr_t p_lli, p_next;
- if (unlikely(!txd))
- return;
-
p_lli = txd->p_lli;
v_lli = txd->v_lli;
@@ -428,7 +424,17 @@ static void sun6i_dma_free_desc(struct virt_dma_desc *vd)
v_lli = v_next;
p_lli = p_next;
}
+}
+static void sun6i_dma_free_desc(struct virt_dma_desc *vd)
+{
+ struct sun6i_desc *txd = to_sun6i_desc(&vd->tx);
+ struct sun6i_dma_dev *sdev = to_sun6i_dma_dev(vd->tx.chan->device);
+
+ if (unlikely(!txd))
+ return;
+
+ sun6i_dma_free_lli_list(sdev, txd);
kfree(txd);
}
@@ -788,9 +794,7 @@ static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *sun6i_dma_prep_slave_sg(
return vchan_tx_prep(&vchan->vc, &txd->vd, flags);
err_lli_free:
- for (p_lli = txd->p_lli, v_lli = txd->v_lli; v_lli;
- p_lli = v_lli->p_lli_next, v_lli = v_lli->v_lli_next)
- dma_pool_free(sdev->pool, v_lli, p_lli);
+ sun6i_dma_free_lli_list(sdev, txd);
kfree(txd);
return NULL;
}
@@ -869,9 +873,7 @@ static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *sun6i_dma_prep_dma_cyclic(
return vchan_tx_prep(&vchan->vc, &txd->vd, flags);
err_lli_free:
- for (p_lli = txd->p_lli, v_lli = txd->v_lli; v_lli;
- p_lli = v_lli->p_lli_next, v_lli = v_lli->v_lli_next)
- dma_pool_free(sdev->pool, v_lli, p_lli);
+ sun6i_dma_free_lli_list(sdev, txd);
kfree(txd);
return NULL;
}
--
2.25.1
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