On 2/14/20 12:22 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > Hi Hans, > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 11:06:36AM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: >> On 1/24/20 3:13 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote: >>> Syzbot triggered a use after free in v5.5-rc6: >>> >>> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in v4l2_release+0x2f1/0x390 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:459 >>> >>> Allocated by task 94: >>> usbvision_alloc drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c:1315 [inline] >>> usbvision_probe.cold+0x5c5/0x1f21 drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c:1469 >>> >>> Freed by task 1913: >>> kfree+0xd5/0x300 mm/slub.c:3957 >>> usbvision_release+0x181/0x1c0 drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c:1364 >>> usbvision_radio_close.cold+0x2b/0x74 drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c:1130 >>> v4l2_release+0x2e7/0x390 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:455 >>> >>> The problem is that the v4l2_release() calls usbvision_release() which >>> frees "usbvision" but v4l2_release() still wants to use >>> "usbvision->vdev". One solution is to make this devm_ allocated memory >>> so the memory isn't freed until later. >> >> devm_ allocated memory is freed after disconnect, so I doubt this will help, or at >> best it will just move the problem elsewhere. > > Yes, devm_*alloc is evil :-( It has spread to many drivers and is used > incorrectly in most cases. > >> The right approach would be to use the release() callback from struct v4l2_device: >> that's called when the very last open filehandle is closed. > > Hillf Danton has sent a patch to do so in the "Re: KASAN: use-after-free > Read in v4l2_release (3)" thread. Have you seen it ? Ah, that was never mailed to linux-media, so never ended up in patchwork. And if it ain't in patchwork, then I don't know about it :-) Hillf, if you want your patch to be merged, then make sure it is CC-ed to linux-media as well. Regards, Hans > >> But I'm not sure if it is worth the effort. The usbvision driver is a mess and >> personally I think it should be deprecated. > > I agree. > >>> Reported-by: syzbot+75287f75e2fedd69d680@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> --- >>> I copied this idea from a different driver, but I haven't tested it. >>> I wanted to try the #syz fix command to see if it works. >>> >>> drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c | 4 +--- >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c b/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c >>> index 93d36aab824f..07b4763062c4 100644 >>> --- a/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c >>> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c >>> @@ -1312,7 +1312,7 @@ static struct usb_usbvision *usbvision_alloc(struct usb_device *dev, >>> { >>> struct usb_usbvision *usbvision; >>> >>> - usbvision = kzalloc(sizeof(*usbvision), GFP_KERNEL); >>> + usbvision = devm_kzalloc(&dev->dev, sizeof(*usbvision), GFP_KERNEL); >>> if (!usbvision) >>> return NULL; >>> >>> @@ -1336,7 +1336,6 @@ static struct usb_usbvision *usbvision_alloc(struct usb_device *dev, >>> v4l2_ctrl_handler_free(&usbvision->hdl); >>> v4l2_device_unregister(&usbvision->v4l2_dev); >>> err_free: >>> - kfree(usbvision); >>> return NULL; >>> } >>> >>> @@ -1361,7 +1360,6 @@ static void usbvision_release(struct usb_usbvision *usbvision) >>> >>> v4l2_ctrl_handler_free(&usbvision->hdl); >>> v4l2_device_unregister(&usbvision->v4l2_dev); >>> - kfree(usbvision); >>> >>> PDEBUG(DBG_PROBE, "success"); >>> } >