[PATCH 5.5 230/257] cpufreq: powernv: Fix use-after-free

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Apr 16 2020 - 10:01:55 EST


From: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@xxxxxxxxx>

commit d0a72efac89d1c35ac55197895201b7b94c5e6ef upstream.

The cpufreq driver has a use-after-free that we can hit if:

a) There's an OCC message pending when the notifier is registered, and
b) The cpufreq driver fails to register with the core.

When a) occurs the notifier schedules a workqueue item to handle the
message. The backing work_struct is located on chips[].throttle and
when b) happens we clean up by freeing the array. Once we get to
the (now free) queued item and the kernel crashes.

Fixes: c5e29ea7ac14 ("cpufreq: powernv: Fix bugs in powernv_cpufreq_{init/exit}")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.6+
Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200206062622.28235-1-oohall@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c
@@ -1080,6 +1080,12 @@ free_and_return:

static inline void clean_chip_info(void)
{
+ int i;
+
+ /* flush any pending work items */
+ if (chips)
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_chips; i++)
+ cancel_work_sync(&chips[i].throttle);
kfree(chips);
}