This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled [media] dvb-usb-v2: avoid use-after-free to the 4.10-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: dvb-usb-v2-avoid-use-after-free.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 005145378c9ad7575a01b6ce1ba118fb427f583a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 12:36:01 -0200 Subject: [media] dvb-usb-v2: avoid use-after-free From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> commit 005145378c9ad7575a01b6ce1ba118fb427f583a upstream. I ran into a stack frame size warning because of the on-stack copy of the USB device structure: drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/dvb_usb_core.c: In function 'dvb_usbv2_disconnect': drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/dvb_usb_core.c:1029:1: error: the frame size of 1104 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=] Copying a device structure like this is wrong for a number of other reasons too aside from the possible stack overflow. One of them is that the dev_info() call will print the name of the device later, but AFAICT we have only copied a pointer to the name earlier and the actual name has been freed by the time it gets printed. This removes the on-stack copy of the device and instead copies the device name using kstrdup(). I'm ignoring the possible failure here as both printk() and kfree() are able to deal with NULL pointers. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/dvb_usb_core.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/dvb_usb_core.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/dvb_usb_core.c @@ -1013,8 +1013,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dvb_usbv2_probe); void dvb_usbv2_disconnect(struct usb_interface *intf) { struct dvb_usb_device *d = usb_get_intfdata(intf); - const char *name = d->name; - struct device dev = d->udev->dev; + const char *devname = kstrdup(dev_name(&d->udev->dev), GFP_KERNEL); + const char *drvname = d->name; dev_dbg(&d->udev->dev, "%s: bInterfaceNumber=%d\n", __func__, intf->cur_altsetting->desc.bInterfaceNumber); @@ -1024,8 +1024,9 @@ void dvb_usbv2_disconnect(struct usb_int dvb_usbv2_exit(d); - dev_info(&dev, "%s: '%s' successfully deinitialized and disconnected\n", - KBUILD_MODNAME, name); + pr_info("%s: '%s:%s' successfully deinitialized and disconnected\n", + KBUILD_MODNAME, drvname, devname); + kfree(devname); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(dvb_usbv2_disconnect); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.10/char-lack-of-bool-string-made-config_devport-always-on.patch queue-4.10/dvb-usb-v2-avoid-use-after-free.patch