From: yuuzheng <yuuzheng@xxxxxxxxxx> The use-after-free or null-pointer error occurs when the 251-byte response data are copied from IOMB buffer to response message buffer in function mp8001_mpi_set_nvmd_resp. pm8001_mpi_set_nvmd_resp is a function to process the response of command set_nvmd_data_resp. After sending the command set_nvmd_data, the caller begins to sleep by calling wait_for_complete() and wait for the wake-up from calling complete() in pm8001_mpi_set_nvmd_resp. In the current code, the memcpy for response message buffer occurs after calling complete(). So, it is not protected by the use of wait_for_completion() and complete(). Due to unexpected events (e.g., interrupt), if response buffer gets freed before memcpy, the use-after-free error will occur. To fix it, the complete() should be called after memcpy. Signed-off-by: yuuzheng <yuuzheng@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Viswas G <Viswas.G@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ruksar Devadi <Ruksar.devadi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Radha Ramachandran <radha@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_hwi.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_hwi.c b/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_hwi.c index 9e9a546da959..2054c2b03d92 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_hwi.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_hwi.c @@ -3279,10 +3279,15 @@ pm8001_mpi_get_nvmd_resp(struct pm8001_hba_info *pm8001_ha, void *piomb) pm8001_ha->memoryMap.region[NVMD].virt_ptr, fw_control_context->len); kfree(ccb->fw_control_context); + /* To avoid race condition, complete should be + * called after the message is copied to + * fw_control_context->usrAddr + */ + complete(pm8001_ha->nvmd_completion); + PM8001_MSG_DBG(pm8001_ha, pm8001_printk("Set nvm data complete!\n")); ccb->task = NULL; ccb->ccb_tag = 0xFFFFFFFF; pm8001_tag_free(pm8001_ha, tag); - complete(pm8001_ha->nvmd_completion); } int pm8001_mpi_local_phy_ctl(struct pm8001_hba_info *pm8001_ha, void *piomb) -- 2.16.3