From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> If da_tokens are allocated, but dell_smbios_init() eventually fails, it will free the da_tokens but it does not reset the da_num_tokens number. This leads to the possibility of a use after free in dell_smbios_find_token(). As da_tokens is not NULL and da_num_tokens is set to something other than 0. By reseting the da_num_tokens to zero, and da_tokens to NULL after it is freed, then access into the other functions that reference them will not read freed memory. This was caught by a KASAN report: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in dell_smbios_find_token+0x2e/0x80 [dell_smbios] Read of size 2 at addr ffff88840c2bc1a8 by task systemd-udevd/479 CPU: 0 PID: 479 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 5.1.0-rc1+ #9 Hardware name: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9360/02PG84, BIOS 2.3.1 10/03/2017 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x7c/0xbb ? dell_smbios_find_token+0x2e/0x80 [dell_smbios] print_address_description+0xc7/0x280 ? dell_smbios_find_token+0x2e/0x80 [dell_smbios] ? dell_smbios_find_token+0x2e/0x80 [dell_smbios] kasan_report+0x14e/0x192 ? dell_smbios_find_token+0x2e/0x80 [dell_smbios] dell_smbios_find_token+0x2e/0x80 [dell_smbios] kbd_led_init+0x2e7/0x473 [dell_laptop] ? dmi_matched+0x2a/0x2a [dell_laptop] ? get_device_parent.isra.28+0x2a0/0x2a0 ? lockdep_init_map+0x98/0x2c0 ? platform_device_add+0x1b5/0x3a0 dell_init+0x4ad/0xb63 [dell_laptop] ? kbd_led_init+0x473/0x473 [dell_laptop] ? ___slab_alloc+0x61f/0x700 ? ___slab_alloc+0x61f/0x700 ? preempt_count_sub+0x15/0x100 ? kbd_led_init+0x473/0x473 [dell_laptop] do_one_initcall+0xbd/0x3fd ? perf_trace_initcall_level+0x280/0x280 ? kasan_unpoison_shadow+0x30/0x40 ? __kasan_kmalloc.constprop.8+0xa0/0xd0 ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x163/0x390 ? kasan_unpoison_shadow+0x30/0x40 do_init_module+0xe3/0x341 load_module+0x2fc5/0x3ad0 ? layout_and_allocate+0x1170/0x1170 ? vfs_read+0xd4/0x1b0 ? kernel_read+0x74/0xa0 ? kernel_read_file+0x148/0x320 ? seccomp_notify_release+0x110/0x110 ? __do_sys_finit_module+0x192/0x1c0 __do_sys_finit_module+0x192/0x1c0 ? __ia32_sys_init_module+0x40/0x40 ? syscall_trace_enter+0x184/0x5e0 ? mark_held_locks+0x1a/0x90 do_syscall_64+0x72/0x220 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe RIP: 0033:0x7fcb4f5f5a49 Code: 00 f3 c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 0f b4 2c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007ffc73e340b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000139 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00005599992bb850 RCX: 00007fcb4f5f5a49 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007fcb4f2e11c5 RDI: 0000000000000010 RBP: 00007fcb4f2e11c5 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00005599992bb850 R10: 0000000000000010 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000559999298f40 R14: 0000000000020000 R15: 00005599992bb850 Allocated by task 479: __kasan_kmalloc.constprop.8+0xa0/0xd0 krealloc+0xa0/0xc0 0xffffffffc0cc0075 dmi_decode_table+0xf6/0x140 dmi_walk+0x46/0x70 0xffffffffc0cc0109 do_one_initcall+0xbd/0x3fd do_init_module+0xe3/0x341 load_module+0x2fc5/0x3ad0 __do_sys_finit_module+0x192/0x1c0 do_syscall_64+0x72/0x220 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe Freed by task 479: __kasan_slab_free+0x111/0x150 kfree+0xf5/0x350 0xffffffffc0cc01d4 do_one_initcall+0xbd/0x3fd do_init_module+0xe3/0x341 load_module+0x2fc5/0x3ad0 __do_sys_finit_module+0x192/0x1c0 do_syscall_64+0x72/0x220 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88840c2bc1a8 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048 The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of 2048-byte region [ffff88840c2bc1a8, ffff88840c2bc9a8) The buggy address belongs to the page: page:ffffea001030ae00 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff8884204113c0 index:0x0 compound_mapcount: 0 flags: 0x17ffffc0010200(slab|head) raw: 0017ffffc0010200 ffffea0010367608 ffffea000ea31808 ffff8884204113c0 raw: 0000000000000000 00000000000d000d 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected Memory state around the buggy address: ffff88840c2bc080: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc ffff88840c2bc100: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc >ffff88840c2bc180: fc fc fc fc fc fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ^ ffff88840c2bc200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ffff88840c2bc280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ================================================================== Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1553106560.2080.5.camel@xxxxxxxxx Reported-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios-base.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios-base.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios-base.c index 0537d44d45a6..a74c0df25b15 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios-base.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios-base.c @@ -625,6 +625,8 @@ static int __init dell_smbios_init(void) fail_platform_driver: kfree(da_tokens); + da_tokens = NULL; + da_num_tokens = 0; return ret; } -- 2.20.1