Dear all,
I am not a regular C developer nor kernel developer. I don't regularly report issues, so I will probably do things wrong.
I investigated a crash that IIUC occurs with hardened memory allocation enabled and a firmware-crash followed by an early failure during hardware reinitialization/probing. The hardened allocator detects double-free issue.
I have created the patch (see attachment) against linux-5.18. Though, please check carefully, because I have not been able to confirm that it actually works. I am hoping someone familiar with the code-base can either test this easily, or confirm from review/analysis.
The commit message describes it in more detail. In summary:
'brcmf_sdio_bus_reset' cleans up and reinitializes the hardware. It frees memory used by (struct brcmf_sdio_dev)->freezer (struct brcmf_sdiod_freezer). However, it then goes to probe the hardware, and an early failure to probe results in the same freeing, both called through function 'brcmf_sdiod_freezer_detach' called inside 'brcmf_sdiod_remove'. Which results in double freeing.
As mentioned before, I was not able to test this and I do not regularly develop in C. I am not confident that this is the proper way to fix it, but it seemed obvious enough. I hope you can support in fixing this bug.
Kind regards,
Danny
PS: Please let me know if I am doing things wrong. I have included both maintainers and mailing lists from https://docs.kernel.org/process/maintainers.html#broadcom-brcm80211-ieee802-11n-wireless-driver I hope I this is alright.
From ddb281e2ebf7e6bd89f091403616a9d77d73be63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danny van Heumen <danny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 18:30:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] brcmfmac: prevent double-free on hardware-reset.
In case of buggy firmware, brcmfmac may perform a hardware reset. If during
reset and subsequent probing an early failure occurs, a memory region is
accidentally double-freed. With hardened memory allocation enabled, this error
will be detected.
Given a firmware crash, function 'brcmf_sdio_bus_reset' is called. It calls
'brcmf_sdiod_remove', then follows up with 'brcmf_sdiod_probe' to reinitialize
the hardware. If 'brcmf_sdiod_probe' fails to "set F1 blocksize", it exits
early, which includes calling 'brcmf_sdiod_remove'. In both cases
'brcmf_sdiod_freezer_detach' is called to free allocated '.freezer', which
has not yet been re-allocated the second time.
Stacktrace of (failing) hardware reset after firmware-crash:
Code: b9402b82 8b0202c0 eb1a02df 54000041 (d4210000)
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
kthread+0x154/0x160
worker_thread+0x188/0x504
process_one_work+0x1f4/0x490
brcmf_core_bus_reset+0x34/0x44 [brcmfmac]
brcmf_sdio_bus_reset+0x68/0xc0 [brcmfmac]
brcmf_sdiod_probe+0x170/0x21c [brcmfmac]
brcmf_sdiod_remove+0x48/0xc0 [brcmfmac]
kfree+0x210/0x220
__slab_free+0x58/0x40c
Call trace:
x2 : 0000000000000040 x1 : fffffc00002d2b80 x0 : ffff00000b4aee40
x5 : ffff8000013fa728 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : ffff00000b4aee00
x8 : ffff800009967ce0 x7 : ffff8000099bfce0 x6 : 00000006f8005d01
x11: ffff8000099bfce0 x10: 00000000fffff000 x9 : ffff8000083401d0
x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 657a69736b636f6c x12: 6220314620746573
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000030
x20: fffffc00002d2ba0 x19: fffffc00002d2b80 x18: 0000000000000000
x23: ffff00000b4aee00 x22: ffff00000b4aee00 x21: 0000000000000001
x26: ffff00000b4aee00 x25: ffff0000f7753705 x24: 000000000001288a
x29: ffff80000a22bbf0 x28: ffff000000401200 x27: 000000008020001a
sp : ffff80000a22bbf0
lr : kfree+0x210/0x220
pc : __slab_free+0x58/0x40c
pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
Workqueue: events brcmf_core_bus_reset [brcmfmac]
Hardware name: Pine64 Pinebook Pro (DT)
CPU: 2 PID: 639 Comm: kworker/2:2 Tainted: G C 5.16.0-0.bpo.4-arm64 #1 Debian 5.16.12-1~bpo11+1
nvmem_rockchip_efuse industrialio_triggered_buffer videodev snd_soc_core snd_pcm_dmaengine kfifo_buf snd_pcm io_domain mc industrialio mt>
Modules linked in: snd_seq_dummy snd_hrtimer snd_seq snd_seq_device nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib nft_reject_inet nf_reje>
Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP
kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:379!
---
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c
index ac02244a6fdf..70a664f2a697 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c
@@ -802,6 +802,7 @@ static void brcmf_sdiod_freezer_detach(struct brcmf_sdio_dev *sdiodev)
if (sdiodev->freezer) {
WARN_ON(atomic_read(&sdiodev->freezer->freezing));
kfree(sdiodev->freezer);
+ sdiodev->freezer = NULL;
}
}
--
2.34.1
