Re: [PATCH] usb: appledisplay: fix use-after-free in bl_get_brightness

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Mittwoch, den 06.11.2019, 06:36 +0700 schrieb Phong Tran:
> In context of USB disconnect, the delaywork trigger and calling
> appledisplay_bl_get_brightness() and the msgdata was freed.
> 
> add the checking return value of usb_control_msg() and only update the
> data while the retval is valid.

Hi,

I am afraid there are some issues with your patch. First, let me stress
that you found the right place to fix an issue and you partially fixed
an issue. But the the fix you applied is incomplete and left another
issue open.

Your patch still allows doing IO to a device that may already be bound
to another driver. That is bad, especially as the buffer is already
free. Yes, if IO is failing, you have fixed that narrow issue.
But it need not fail.

If you look into appledisplay_probe() you will see that it can fail
because backlight_device_register() fails. The error handling will
thereupon kill the URB and free memory. But it will not kill an already
scheduled work. The scheduled work will then call usb_control_msg()
on pdata->msgdata, which has been freed. If that IO fails, all is well.
If not, the issue still exists.

Secondly, your error check is off by 2. You are checking only for
usb_control_msg() failing. But it can return only one byte instead
of two. If that happens, the value you return is stale, although
the buffer is correctly allocated.

	Regards
		Oliver

The correct fix for both issues would be:

#syz test: https://github.com/google/kasan.git e0bd8d79