Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] usb: gadget: clear related members when goto fail

[Alan Stern]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 02:46:00PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 01:11:32PM +0800, Hangyu Hua wrote:
> > dev->config and dev->hs_config and dev->dev need to be cleaned if
> > dev_config fails to avoid UAF.

> > @@ -1875,6 +1875,9 @@ dev_config (struct file *fd, const char __user *buf, size_t len, loff_t *ptr)
> >  
> >  	value = usb_gadget_probe_driver(&gadgetfs_driver);
> >  	if (value != 0) {
> > +		dev->dev = NULL;
> > +		dev->hs_config = NULL;
> > +		dev->config = NULL;
> >  		kfree (dev->buf);
> >  		dev->buf = NULL;
> 
> Why not just grep the lock and goto fail?

Wrong word: I meant to write "grab", not "grep".

Alan Stern