[RFC PATCH] drm/bridge: panel: Use devm_drm_bridge_add()
Maxime Ripard
mripard at kernel.org
Thu Oct 24 12:35:55 UTC 2024
On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 01:23:31PM +0800, Fei Shao wrote:
> In the mtk_dsi driver, its DSI host attach callback calls
> devm_drm_of_get_bridge() to get the next bridge. If that next bridge is
> a panel bridge, a panel_bridge object is allocated and managed by the
> panel device.
>
> Later, if the attach callback fails with -EPROBE_DEFER from subsequent
> component_add(), the panel device invoking the callback at probe time
> also fails, and all device-managed resources are freed accordingly.
>
> This exposes a drm_bridge bridge_list corruption due to the unbalanced
> lifecycle between the DSI host and the panel devices: the panel_bridge
> object managed by panel device is freed, while drm_bridge_remove() is
> bound to DSI host device and never gets called.
> The next drm_bridge_add() will trigger UAF against the freed bridge list
> object and result in kernel panic.
>
> This bug is observed on a MediaTek MT8188-based Chromebook with MIPI DSI
> outputting to a DSI panel (DT is WIP for upstream).
>
> As a fix, using devm_drm_bridge_add() with the panel device in the panel
> path seems reasonable. This also implies a chain of potential cleanup
> actions:
>
> 1. Removing drm_bridge_remove() means devm_drm_panel_bridge_release()
> becomes hollow and can be removed.
>
> 2. devm_drm_panel_bridge_add_typed() is almost emptied except for the
> `bridge->pre_enable_prev_first` line. Itself can be also removed if
> we move the line into drm_panel_bridge_add_typed(). (maybe?)
>
> 3. drm_panel_bridge_add_typed() now calls all the needed devm_* calls,
> so it's essentially the new devm_drm_panel_bridge_add_typed().
>
> 4. drmm_panel_bridge_add() needs to be updated accordingly since it
> calls drm_panel_bridge_add_typed(). But now there's only one bridge
> object to be freed, and it's already being managed by panel device.
> I wonder if we still need both drmm_ and devm_ version in this case.
> (maybe yes from DRM PoV, I don't know much about the context)
>
> This is a RFC patch since I'm not sure if my understanding is correct
> (for both the fix and the cleanup). It fixes the issue I encountered,
> but I don't expect it to be picked up directly due to the redundant
> commit message and the dangling devm_drm_panel_bridge_release().
> I plan to resend the official patch(es) once I know what I supposed to
> do next.
>
> For reference, here's the KASAN report from the device:
> ==================================================================
> BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in drm_bridge_add+0x98/0x230
> Read of size 8 at addr ffffff80c4e9e100 by task kworker/u32:1/69
>
> CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 69 Comm: kworker/u32:1 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc1-next-20241004-kasan-00030-g062135fa4046 #1
> Hardware name: Google Ciri sku0/unprovisioned board (DT)
> Workqueue: events_unbound deferred_probe_work_func
> Call trace:
> dump_backtrace+0xfc/0x140
> show_stack+0x24/0x38
> dump_stack_lvl+0x40/0xc8
> print_report+0x140/0x700
> kasan_report+0xcc/0x130
> __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x20/0x30
> drm_bridge_add+0x98/0x230
> devm_drm_panel_bridge_add_typed+0x174/0x298
> devm_drm_of_get_bridge+0xe8/0x190
> mtk_dsi_host_attach+0x130/0x2b0
> mipi_dsi_attach+0x8c/0xe8
> hx83102_probe+0x1a8/0x368
> mipi_dsi_drv_probe+0x6c/0x88
> really_probe+0x1c4/0x698
> __driver_probe_device+0x160/0x298
> driver_probe_device+0x7c/0x2a8
> __device_attach_driver+0x2a0/0x398
> bus_for_each_drv+0x198/0x200
> __device_attach+0x1c0/0x308
> device_initial_probe+0x20/0x38
> bus_probe_device+0x11c/0x1f8
> deferred_probe_work_func+0x80/0x250
> worker_thread+0x9b4/0x2780
> kthread+0x274/0x350
> ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
>
> Allocated by task 69:
> kasan_save_track+0x40/0x78
> kasan_save_alloc_info+0x44/0x58
> __kasan_kmalloc+0x84/0xa0
> __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x228/0x450
> devm_kmalloc+0x6c/0x288
> devm_drm_panel_bridge_add_typed+0xa0/0x298
> devm_drm_of_get_bridge+0xe8/0x190
> mtk_dsi_host_attach+0x130/0x2b0
> mipi_dsi_attach+0x8c/0xe8
> hx83102_probe+0x1a8/0x368
> mipi_dsi_drv_probe+0x6c/0x88
> really_probe+0x1c4/0x698
> __driver_probe_device+0x160/0x298
> driver_probe_device+0x7c/0x2a8
> __device_attach_driver+0x2a0/0x398
> bus_for_each_drv+0x198/0x200
> __device_attach+0x1c0/0x308
> device_initial_probe+0x20/0x38
> bus_probe_device+0x11c/0x1f8
> deferred_probe_work_func+0x80/0x250
> worker_thread+0x9b4/0x2780
> kthread+0x274/0x350
> ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
>
> Freed by task 69:
> kasan_save_track+0x40/0x78
> kasan_save_free_info+0x58/0x78
> __kasan_slab_free+0x48/0x68
> kfree+0xd4/0x750
> devres_release_all+0x144/0x1e8
> really_probe+0x48c/0x698
> __driver_probe_device+0x160/0x298
> driver_probe_device+0x7c/0x2a8
> __device_attach_driver+0x2a0/0x398
> bus_for_each_drv+0x198/0x200
> __device_attach+0x1c0/0x308
> device_initial_probe+0x20/0x38
> bus_probe_device+0x11c/0x1f8
> deferred_probe_work_func+0x80/0x250
> worker_thread+0x9b4/0x2780
> kthread+0x274/0x350
> ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
>
> The buggy address belongs to the object at ffffff80c4e9e000
> which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
> The buggy address is located 256 bytes inside of
> freed 4096-byte region [ffffff80c4e9e000, ffffff80c4e9f000)
>
> The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
> head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
> flags: 0x8000000000000040(head|zone=2)
> page_type: f5(slab)
> page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000
> index:0x0 pfn:0x104e98
> raw: 8000000000000040 ffffff80c0003040 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
> raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000001f5000000 0000000000000000
> head: 8000000000000040 ffffff80c0003040 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
> head: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000001f5000000 0000000000000000
> head: 8000000000000003 fffffffec313a601 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000
> head: 0000000000000008 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
> page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
>
> Memory state around the buggy address:
> ffffff80c4e9e000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> ffffff80c4e9e080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> >ffffff80c4e9e100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> ^
> ffffff80c4e9e180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> ffffff80c4e9e200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> ===================================================================
>
> Signed-off-by: Fei Shao <fshao at chromium.org>
I was looking at the driver to try to follow your (awesome btw, thanks)
commit log, and it does have a quite different structure compared to
what we recommend.
Would following
https://docs.kernel.org/gpu/drm-kms-helpers.html#special-care-with-mipi-dsi-bridges
help?
Maxime
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