This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ubi: Fix use-after-free when volume resizing failed to the 4.19-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: ubi-fix-use-after-free-when-volume-resizing-failed.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 491993dee82ef685ad3846ff66594e623d680258 Author: Li Zetao <lizetao1@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Oct 21 18:21:56 2022 +0800 ubi: Fix use-after-free when volume resizing failed [ Upstream commit 9af31d6ec1a4be4caab2550096c6bd2ba8fba472 ] There is an use-after-free problem reported by KASAN: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ubi_eba_copy_table+0x11f/0x1c0 [ubi] Read of size 8 at addr ffff888101eec008 by task ubirsvol/4735 CPU: 2 PID: 4735 Comm: ubirsvol Not tainted 6.1.0-rc1-00003-g84fa3304a7fc-dirty #14 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-1.fc33 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44 print_report+0x171/0x472 kasan_report+0xad/0x130 ubi_eba_copy_table+0x11f/0x1c0 [ubi] ubi_resize_volume+0x4f9/0xbc0 [ubi] ubi_cdev_ioctl+0x701/0x1850 [ubi] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x11d/0x170 do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 </TASK> When ubi_change_vtbl_record() returns an error in ubi_resize_volume(), "new_eba_tbl" will be freed on error handing path, but it is holded by "vol->eba_tbl" in ubi_eba_replace_table(). It means that the liftcycle of "vol->eba_tbl" and "vol" are different, so when resizing volume in next time, it causing an use-after-free fault. Fix it by not freeing "new_eba_tbl" after it replaced in ubi_eba_replace_table(), while will be freed in next volume resizing. Fixes: 801c135ce73d ("UBI: Unsorted Block Images") Signed-off-by: Li Zetao <lizetao1@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c index 9f6ffd340a3ef..525aa795f934d 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c @@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ int ubi_resize_volume(struct ubi_volume_desc *desc, int reserved_pebs) for (i = 0; i < -pebs; i++) { err = ubi_eba_unmap_leb(ubi, vol, reserved_pebs + i); if (err) - goto out_acc; + goto out_free; } spin_lock(&ubi->volumes_lock); ubi->rsvd_pebs += pebs; @@ -525,6 +525,8 @@ int ubi_resize_volume(struct ubi_volume_desc *desc, int reserved_pebs) ubi->avail_pebs += pebs; spin_unlock(&ubi->volumes_lock); } + return err; + out_free: kfree(new_eba_tbl); return err;