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

From: Pete Zaitcev
Date: Wed May 06 2020 - 12:47:46 EST


On Wed, 06 May 2020 11:14:42 +0200
Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Very well. We are not going to find it without exceptional luck. Yet
> there may be a real issue, too. We simply do not know. How about the
> attached patch?

> usblp_unlink_urbs(usblp);
> mutex_unlock(&usblp->mut);
> + usb_poison_anchored_urbs(&usblp->urbs);
>
> if (!usblp->used)
> usblp_cleanup(usblp);

This can't be right. Our URBs are freed by the callback, and this
technique is not compatible with poisoning, at least with how the
usb/core.c implements it. The usb_poison_urb() waits for URB
to complete, and if the callback frees it, it's a problem.

-- Pete