This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/i915: fix race condition UAF in i915_perf_add_config_ioctl to the 6.2-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: drm-i915-fix-race-condition-uaf-in-i915_perf_add_config_ioctl.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.2 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From dc30c011469165d57af9adac5baff7d767d20e5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Min Li <lm0963hack@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 17:36:27 +0800 Subject: drm/i915: fix race condition UAF in i915_perf_add_config_ioctl From: Min Li <lm0963hack@xxxxxxxxx> commit dc30c011469165d57af9adac5baff7d767d20e5c upstream. Userspace can guess the id value and try to race oa_config object creation with config remove, resulting in a use-after-free if we dereference the object after unlocking the metrics_lock. For that reason, unlocking the metrics_lock must be done after we are done dereferencing the object. Signed-off-by: Min Li <lm0963hack@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: f89823c21224 ("drm/i915/perf: Implement I915_PERF_ADD/REMOVE_CONFIG interface") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.14+ Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Umesh Nerlige Ramappa <umesh.nerlige.ramappa@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230328093627.5067-1-lm0963hack@xxxxxxxxx [tursulin: Manually added stable tag.] (cherry picked from commit 49f6f6483b652108bcb73accd0204a464b922395) Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_perf.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_perf.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_perf.c @@ -4612,13 +4612,13 @@ int i915_perf_add_config_ioctl(struct dr err = oa_config->id; goto sysfs_err; } - - mutex_unlock(&perf->metrics_lock); + id = oa_config->id; drm_dbg(&perf->i915->drm, "Added config %s id=%i\n", oa_config->uuid, oa_config->id); + mutex_unlock(&perf->metrics_lock); - return oa_config->id; + return id; sysfs_err: mutex_unlock(&perf->metrics_lock); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from lm0963hack@xxxxxxxxx are queue-6.2/drm-i915-fix-race-condition-uaf-in-i915_perf_add_config_ioctl.patch