[PATCH 1/7] drm/msm: fix use-after-free on probe deferral

Johan Hovold johan at kernel.org
Tue Sep 13 07:31:13 UTC 2022


On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 08:52:44PM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On 12/09/2022 18:40, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > The bridge counter was never reset when tearing down the DRM device so
> > that stale pointers to deallocated structures would be accessed on the
> > next tear down (e.g. after a second late bind deferral).
> > 
> > Given enough bridges and a few probe deferrals this could currently also
> > lead to data beyond the bridge array being corrupted.
> > 
> > Fixes: d28ea556267c ("drm/msm: properly add and remove internal bridges")
> > Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org      # 5.19
> 
> Fixes: a3376e3ec81c ("drm/msm: convert to drm_bridge")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # 3.12

The use after free was introduced in 5.19, and the next patch takes care
of the possible overflow of the bridges array that has been around since
3.12.

But sure, this oversight has been there since 3.12. I'll reconsider
adding the other Fixes tag. The stable team struggles with context
changes apparently so not sure it's worth backporting, though.

> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov at linaro.org>
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro at kernel.org>
> > ---
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c | 1 +
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c
> > index 391d86b54ded..d254fe2507ec 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c
> > @@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ static int msm_drm_uninit(struct device *dev)
> >   
> >   	for (i = 0; i < priv->num_bridges; i++)
> >   		drm_bridge_remove(priv->bridges[i]);
> > +	priv->num_bridges = 0;
> >   
> >   	pm_runtime_get_sync(dev);
> >   	msm_irq_uninstall(ddev);

Johan


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