spi: Fix use-after-free with devm_spi_alloc_*

Dear Greg, Dear Sasha,

please consider applying the patch below to v4.9-stable.

It is a backport of upstream commit 794aaf01444d, which has already been applied to all stable kernels going back to v4.14.

Thanks!

Lukas

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From: "William A. Kennington III" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 02:55:27 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] spi: Fix use-after-free with devm_spi_alloc_*

commit 794aaf01444d4e765e2b067cba01cc69c1c68ed9 upstream.

We can't rely on the contents of the devres list during spi_unregister_controller(), as the list is already torn down at the time we perform devres_find() for devm_spi_release_controller. This causes devices registered with devm_spi_alloc_{master,slave}() to be mistakenly identified as legacy, non-devm managed devices and have their reference counters decremented below 0.

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 660 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0x108/0x174
[<b0396f04>] (refcount_warn_saturate) from [<b03c56a4>] (kobject_put+0x90/0x98)
[<b03c5614>] (kobject_put) from [<b0447b4c>] (put_device+0x20/0x24)
 r4:b6700140
[<b0447b2c>] (put_device) from [<b07515e8>] (devm_spi_release_controller+0x3c/0x40)
[<b07515ac>] (devm_spi_release_controller) from [<b045343c>] (release_nodes+0x84/0xc4)
 r5:b6700180 r4:b6700100
[<b04533b8>] (release_nodes) from [<b0454160>] (devres_release_all+0x5c/0x60)
 r8:b1638c54 r7:b117ad94 r6:b1638c10 r5:b117ad94 r4:b163dc10
[<b0454104>] (devres_release_all) from [<b044e41c>] (__device_release_driver+0x144/0x1ec)
 r5:b117ad94 r4:b163dc10
[<b044e2d8>] (__device_release_driver) from [<b044f70c>] (device_driver_detach+0x84/0xa0)
 r9:00000000 r8:00000000 r7:b117ad94 r6:b163dc54 r5:b1638c10 r4:b163dc10
[<b044f688>] (device_driver_detach) from [<b044d274>] (unbind_store+0xe4/0xf8)

Instead, determine the devm allocation state as a flag on the controller which is guaranteed to be stable during cleanup.

---
 drivers/spi/spi.c       | 9 ++-------
 include/linux/spi/spi.h | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

index f0ba5eb26128..84e2296c45a2 100644
@@ -1869,6 +1869,7 @@ struct spi_master *devm_spi_alloc_master(struct device *dev, unsigned int size)
 
 	master = spi_alloc_master(dev, size);
 	if (master) {
+		master->devm_allocated = true;
 		*ptr = master;
 		devres_add(dev, ptr);
 	} else {

@@ -2059,11 +2060,6 @@ int devm_spi_register_master(struct device *dev, struct spi_master *master)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_spi_register_master);
 
-static int devm_spi_match_master(struct device *dev, void *res, void *master)
-{
-	return *(struct spi_master **)res == master;
-}
-
 static int __unregister(struct device *dev, void *null)
 {
 	spi_unregister_device(to_spi_device(dev));

@@ -2102,8 +2098,7 @@ void spi_unregister_master(struct spi_master *master)
 	/* Release the last reference on the master if its driver
 	 * has not yet been converted to devm_spi_alloc_master().
 	 */
-	if (!devres_find(master->dev.parent, devm_spi_release_master,
-			 devm_spi_match_master, master))
+	if (!master->devm_allocated)
 		put_device(&master->dev);
 
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPI_DYNAMIC))

index 8470695e5dd7..9c8445f1af0c 100644
@@ -443,6 +443,9 @@ struct spi_master {
 #define SPI_MASTER_MUST_RX      BIT(3)		/* requires rx */
 #define SPI_MASTER_MUST_TX      BIT(4)		/* requires tx */
 
+	/* flag indicating this is a non-devres managed controller */
+	bool			devm_allocated;
+
 	/*
 	 * on some hardware transfer / message size may be constrained
 	 * the limit may depend on device transfer settings

2.31.1

Please always cc: [email protected] for stuff you want queued up so that we do not miss them...

thanks,

greg k-h

Sorry about that. I've just amended the Cc: header as requested and bounced the two messages to stable@, they're visible on lore.kernel.org already.

Thanks,

Lukas