This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled wifi: ath9k: hif_usb: Fix use-after-free in ath9k_hif_usb_reg_in_cb() to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: wifi-ath9k-hif_usb-fix-use-after-free-in-ath9k_hif_u.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 97dbb58948ddd90ee78612b723cb97917b63c621 Author: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Oct 8 14:49:17 2022 +0300 wifi: ath9k: hif_usb: Fix use-after-free in ath9k_hif_usb_reg_in_cb() [ Upstream commit dd95f2239fc846795fc926787c3ae0ca701c9840 ] It is possible that skb is freed in ath9k_htc_rx_msg(), then usb_submit_urb() fails and we try to free skb again. It causes use-after-free bug. Moreover, if alloc_skb() fails, urb->context becomes NULL but rx_buf is not freed and there can be a memory leak. The patch removes unnecessary nskb and makes skb processing more clear: it is supposed that ath9k_htc_rx_msg() either frees old skb or passes its managing to another callback function. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller. Fixes: 3deff76095c4 ("ath9k_htc: Increase URB count for REG_IN pipe") Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221008114917.21404-1-pchelkin@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c index e66518d86882..e5d5b0761881 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c @@ -709,14 +709,13 @@ static void ath9k_hif_usb_reg_in_cb(struct urb *urb) struct rx_buf *rx_buf = (struct rx_buf *)urb->context; struct hif_device_usb *hif_dev = rx_buf->hif_dev; struct sk_buff *skb = rx_buf->skb; - struct sk_buff *nskb; int ret; if (!skb) return; if (!hif_dev) - goto free; + goto free_skb; switch (urb->status) { case 0: @@ -725,7 +724,7 @@ static void ath9k_hif_usb_reg_in_cb(struct urb *urb) case -ECONNRESET: case -ENODEV: case -ESHUTDOWN: - goto free; + goto free_skb; default: skb_reset_tail_pointer(skb); skb_trim(skb, 0); @@ -736,25 +735,27 @@ static void ath9k_hif_usb_reg_in_cb(struct urb *urb) if (likely(urb->actual_length != 0)) { skb_put(skb, urb->actual_length); - /* Process the command first */ + /* + * Process the command first. + * skb is either freed here or passed to be + * managed to another callback function. + */ ath9k_htc_rx_msg(hif_dev->htc_handle, skb, skb->len, USB_REG_IN_PIPE); - - nskb = alloc_skb(MAX_REG_IN_BUF_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC); - if (!nskb) { + skb = alloc_skb(MAX_REG_IN_BUF_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC); + if (!skb) { dev_err(&hif_dev->udev->dev, "ath9k_htc: REG_IN memory allocation failure\n"); - urb->context = NULL; - return; + goto free_rx_buf; } - rx_buf->skb = nskb; + rx_buf->skb = skb; usb_fill_int_urb(urb, hif_dev->udev, usb_rcvintpipe(hif_dev->udev, USB_REG_IN_PIPE), - nskb->data, MAX_REG_IN_BUF_SIZE, + skb->data, MAX_REG_IN_BUF_SIZE, ath9k_hif_usb_reg_in_cb, rx_buf, 1); } @@ -763,12 +764,13 @@ static void ath9k_hif_usb_reg_in_cb(struct urb *urb) ret = usb_submit_urb(urb, GFP_ATOMIC); if (ret) { usb_unanchor_urb(urb); - goto free; + goto free_skb; } return; -free: +free_skb: kfree_skb(skb); +free_rx_buf: kfree(rx_buf); urb->context = NULL; }