Re: KASAN: use-after-free Read in ld_usb_release

From: Alan Stern
Date: Mon Aug 12 2019 - 10:21:18 EST


On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Andrey Konovalov wrote:

> Alan, could you submit this patch (if you haven't already)? Looks like
> it fixes this bug (and might fix some others).

I will. I was waiting to see if Greg KH had any comments.

Alan Stern


> > drivers/usb/core/file.c | 10 +++++-----
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > Index: usb-devel/drivers/usb/core/file.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- usb-devel.orig/drivers/usb/core/file.c
> > +++ usb-devel/drivers/usb/core/file.c
> > @@ -193,9 +193,10 @@ int usb_register_dev(struct usb_interfac
> > intf->minor = minor;
> > break;
> > }
> > - up_write(&minor_rwsem);
> > - if (intf->minor < 0)
> > + if (intf->minor < 0) {
> > + up_write(&minor_rwsem);
> > return -EXFULL;
> > + }
> >
> > /* create a usb class device for this usb interface */
> > snprintf(name, sizeof(name), class_driver->name, minor - minor_base);
> > @@ -203,12 +204,11 @@ int usb_register_dev(struct usb_interfac
> > MKDEV(USB_MAJOR, minor), class_driver,
> > "%s", kbasename(name));
> > if (IS_ERR(intf->usb_dev)) {
> > - down_write(&minor_rwsem);
> > usb_minors[minor] = NULL;
> > intf->minor = -1;
> > - up_write(&minor_rwsem);
> > retval = PTR_ERR(intf->usb_dev);
> > }
> > + up_write(&minor_rwsem);
> > return retval;
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_register_dev);
> > @@ -234,12 +234,12 @@ void usb_deregister_dev(struct usb_inter
> > return;
> >
> > dev_dbg(&intf->dev, "removing %d minor\n", intf->minor);
> > + device_destroy(usb_class->class, MKDEV(USB_MAJOR, intf->minor));
> >
> > down_write(&minor_rwsem);
> > usb_minors[intf->minor] = NULL;
> > up_write(&minor_rwsem);
> >
> > - device_destroy(usb_class->class, MKDEV(USB_MAJOR, intf->minor));
> > intf->usb_dev = NULL;
> > intf->minor = -1;
> > destroy_usb_class();