[2022-05-26 21:47:52] Javier Martinez Canillas:
Commit b3c9a924aab6 ("fbdev: vesafb: Cleanup fb_info in .fb_destroy rather
than .remove") fixed a use-after-free error due the vesafb driver freeing
the fb_info in the .remove handler instead of doing it in .fb_destroy.
This can happen if the .fb_destroy callback is executed after the .remove
callback, since the former tries to access a pointer freed by the latter.
But that change didn't take into account that another possible scenario is
that .fb_destroy is called before the .remove callback. For example, if no
process has the fbdev chardev opened by the time the driver is removed.
If that's the case, fb_info will be freed when unregister_framebuffer() is
called, making the fb_info pointer accessed in vesafb_remove() after that
to no longer be valid.
To prevent that, move the expression containing the info->par to happen
before the unregister_framebuffer() function call.
Fixes: b3c9a924aab6 ("fbdev: vesafb: Cleanup fb_info in .fb_destroy rather than .remove")
Reported-by: Pascal Ernster <dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested on a bare metal machine and on a test VM that had both crashed
when booting a kernel lacking this patch.
Again, thanks a lot for the quick fix! :)
Tested-by: Pascal Ernster <dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/video/fbdev/vesafb.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/vesafb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/vesafb.c
index e25e8de5ff67..929d4775cb4b 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/vesafb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/vesafb.c
@@ -490,11 +490,12 @@ static int vesafb_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct fb_info *info = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
- /* vesafb_destroy takes care of info cleanup */
- unregister_framebuffer(info);
if (((struct vesafb_par *)(info->par))->region)
release_region(0x3c0, 32);
+ /* vesafb_destroy takes care of info cleanup */
+ unregister_framebuffer(info);
+
return 0;
}
