Re: KASAN: use-after-free Write in rtl_fw_do_work

From: Brooke Basile
Date: Mon Aug 31 2020 - 15:15:19 EST


On 8/31/20 9:30 AM, Hillf Danton wrote:

Mon, 31 Aug 2020 04:48:15 -0700
syzbot found the following issue on:

HEAD commit: 3ed8e1c2 usb: typec: tcpm: Migrate workqueue to RT priorit..
git tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=111f9015900000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=ccafc70ac3d5f49c
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=dc3cab055dff074f2d7f
compiler: gcc (GCC) 10.1.0-syz 20200507
syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=148a00c9900000

IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
Reported-by: syzbot+dc3cab055dff074f2d7f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

usb 1-1: Direct firmware load for rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin failed with error -2
usb 1-1: Direct firmware load for rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin failed with error -2
rtlwifi: Loading alternative firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin
rtlwifi: Selected firmware is not available
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in rtl_fw_do_work.cold+0x68/0x6a drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/core.c:93
Write of size 4 at addr ffff8881c9c2ff30 by task kworker/1:5/3063

CPU: 1 PID: 3063 Comm: kworker/1:5 Not tainted 5.9.0-rc1-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Workqueue: events request_firmware_work_func
Call Trace:
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
dump_stack+0xf6/0x16e lib/dump_stack.c:118
print_address_description.constprop.0+0x1c/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:383
__kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:513 [inline]
kasan_report.cold+0x37/0x7c mm/kasan/report.c:530
rtl_fw_do_work.cold+0x68/0x6a drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/core.c:93
request_firmware_work_func+0x126/0x250 drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:1001
process_one_work+0x94c/0x15f0 kernel/workqueue.c:2269
worker_thread+0x64c/0x1120 kernel/workqueue.c:2415
kthread+0x392/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:292
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:294

The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:000000008323bb9d refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x1c9c2f
flags: 0x200000000000000()
raw: 0200000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffea0007270bc8 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff8881c9c2fe00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ffff8881c9c2fe80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ffff8881c9c2ff00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
^
ffff8881c9c2ff80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ffff8881c9c30000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
==================================================================


While probing pci for instance, wait for kworker to finish its work in the
err branches.


--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/core.c
@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ static void rtl_fw_do_work(const struct
RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_ERR, DBG_LOUD,
"Firmware callback routine entered!\n");
- complete(&rtlpriv->firmware_loading_complete);
if (!firmware) {
if (rtlpriv->cfg->alt_fw_name) {
err = request_firmware(&firmware,
@@ -91,13 +90,12 @@ static void rtl_fw_do_work(const struct
}
pr_err("Selected firmware is not available\n");
rtlpriv->max_fw_size = 0;
- return;
+ goto out;
}
found_alt:
if (firmware->size > rtlpriv->max_fw_size) {
pr_err("Firmware is too big!\n");
- release_firmware(firmware);
- return;
+ goto release;
}
if (!is_wow) {
memcpy(rtlpriv->rtlhal.pfirmware, firmware->data,
@@ -108,7 +106,11 @@ found_alt:
firmware->size);
rtlpriv->rtlhal.wowlan_fwsize = firmware->size;
}
+
+release:
release_firmware(firmware);
+out:
+ complete(&rtlpriv->firmware_loading_complete);
}
void rtl_fw_cb(const struct firmware *firmware, void *context)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/pci.c
@@ -2161,6 +2161,7 @@ int rtl_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
struct rtl_pci *rtlpci;
unsigned long pmem_start, pmem_len, pmem_flags;
int err;
+ bool wait_kworker = false;
err = pci_enable_device(pdev);
if (err) {
@@ -2272,6 +2273,7 @@ int rtl_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
err = -ENODEV;
goto fail3;
}
+ wait_kworker = true;
rtlpriv->cfg->ops->init_sw_leds(hw);
/*aspm */
@@ -2327,7 +2329,8 @@ fail2:
pci_iounmap(pdev, (void __iomem *)rtlpriv->io.pci_mem_start);
pci_release_regions(pdev);
- complete(&rtlpriv->firmware_loading_complete);
+ if (wait_kworker == true)
+ wait_for_completion(&rtlpriv->firmware_loading_complete);
fail1:
if (hw)


Hi,

It looks like this is probably a duplicate related to this patch:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=1f05ed98df706bb64aeee4dccc5ab48cd7542643

Best,
Brooke Basile