KASAN reports a use-after-free problem and causes kernel panic triggered by: modprobe acpiphp_ibm BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in acpi_ds_dump_method_stack (drivers/acpi/acpica/dsdebug.c:145) Read of size 8 at addr ffff888002f843f0 by task modprobe/519 CPU: 2 PID: 519 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.0.0+ Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) Call Trace: <TASK> acpi_ds_dump_method_stack (drivers/acpi/acpica/dsdebug.c:145) acpi_ds_method_error (drivers/acpi/acpica/dsmethod.c:232) acpi_ps_parse_aml (drivers/acpi/acpica/psparse.c:607) ... </TASK> Allocated by task 519: ... __kasan_kmalloc (mm/kasan/common.c:526) acpi_ds_create_walk_state (drivers/acpi/acpica/dswstate.c:519) acpi_ds_call_control_method (drivers/acpi/acpica/dsmethod.c:498) acpi_ps_parse_aml (drivers/acpi/acpica/psparse.c:607) ... Freed by task 519: ... __kmem_cache_free+0xb6/0x3c0 acpi_ds_delete_walk_state (drivers/acpi/acpica/dswstate.c:722) acpi_ds_call_control_method (drivers/acpi/acpica/dsmethod.c:586) acpi_ps_parse_aml (drivers/acpi/acpica/psparse.c:607) ... ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception ]--- In the error path in acpi_ps_parse_aml(): acpi_ds_call_control_method() acpi_ds_create_walk_state() acpi_ds_push_walk_state() # thread->walk_state_list = walk_state acpi_ds_init_aml_walk # *fail* goto cleanup: acpi_ds_delete_walk_state() # ACPI_FREE(walk_state) acpi_ds_method_error() acpi_ds_dump_method_stack() # using freed thread->walk_state_list Briefly, the walk_state is pushed to thread, and freed without being poped. Then it is used in acpi_ds_dump_method_stack() and causes use-after-free. Add acpi_ds_pop_walk_state(thread) to the error path to fix the problem. Fixes: 0bac4295526c ("ACPICA: Dispatcher: Move stack traversal code to dispatcher") Signed-off-by: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/acpica/dsmethod.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsmethod.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsmethod.c index ae2e768830bf..19da7fc73186 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsmethod.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsmethod.c @@ -581,6 +581,7 @@ acpi_ds_call_control_method(struct acpi_thread_state *thread, acpi_ds_terminate_control_method(obj_desc, next_walk_state); acpi_ds_delete_walk_state(next_walk_state); + acpi_ds_pop_walk_state(thread); return_ACPI_STATUS(status); } -- 2.17.1