Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: fix memory leak / bad pointer freeing for chanlist

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On 20/10/14 22:38, Hartley Sweeten wrote:
On Monday, October 20, 2014 7:11 AM, Ian Abbott wrote:
As a follow-up to commit 6cab7a37f5c04 ("staging: comedi: (regression)
channel list must be set for COMEDI_CMD ioctl"), Hartley Sweeten pointed
out another couple of bugs stemming from commit 6cab7a37f5c04 ("staging:
comedi: comedi_fops: introduce __comedi_get_user_chanlist()").

Firstly, `do_cmdtest_ioctl()` never frees the kernel copy of the user
chanlist allocated by `__comedi_get_user_chanlist()`, so that memory is
leaked.  Fix it by freeing the allocated kernel memory pointed to by
`cmd.chanlist` before that pointer is overwritten with its original
pointer to user memory before `cmd` is copied back to user-space.

Secondly, if `__comedi_get_user_chanlist()` returns an error,
`cmd->chanlist` is left unchanged and in fact will be a pointer to user
memory.  This causes `do_cmd_ioctl()` to `goto cleanup` and call
`do_become_nonbusy()` which would attempt to free the memory pointed to
by the user-space pointer.  Fix it by setting `cmd->chanlist` to NULL at
the start of `__comedi_get_user_chanlist()`.

Fixes: c6cd0eefb27b ("staging: comedi: comedi_fops: introduce __comedi_get_user_chanlist()")
Reported-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.15.y 3.16.y 3.17.y: 6cab7a37f5c04
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.15.y 3.16.y 3.17.y
---
Greg, this patch applies to your "staging-linus" branch.
---
  drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 3 +++
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
index a9b7fe5..a1788e8 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
@@ -1462,6 +1462,7 @@ static int __comedi_get_user_chanlist(struct comedi_device *dev,
  	unsigned int *chanlist;
  	int ret;

+	cmd->chanlist = NULL;
  	chanlist = memdup_user(user_chanlist,
  			       cmd->chanlist_len * sizeof(unsigned int));
  	if (IS_ERR(chanlist))

I don't think this covers all the problems in your second issue above.

It does fix the attempt to free the memory pointed to by the user-space pointer
if the memdub_user() fails.

But in do_cmd_ioctl() we still have an issue if the s->do_cmdtest() fails or
the CMDF_BOGUS flag is set. There we restore the users cmd.chanlist
pointer to allow copy_to_user() to return the cmd/ But the kernel allocated
chanlist is not freed. The goto cleanup will again try to free the user-space
pointer.

No, 'async->cmd' is copied (via struct assignment) to local variable 'cmd' and it is the local 'cmd.chanlist' pointer that is set to the original user-space pointer and the local 'cmd' that is copied back to user-space. 'async->cmd.chanlist' still points to the kernel copy of the chanlist that gets cleaned up by 'goto cleanup' / 'do_become_nonbusy().

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