Re: [PATCH] mm/hmm/test: use after free in dmirror_allocate_chunk()

From: Ralph Campbell
Date: Tue Sep 22 2020 - 13:31:08 EST



On 9/22/20 1:12 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
The error handling code does this:

err_free:
kfree(devmem);
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
err_release:
release_mem_region(devmem->pagemap.range.start, range_len(&devmem->pagemap.range));
^^^^^^^^
The problem is that when we use "devmem->pagemap.range.start" the
"devmem" pointer is either NULL or freed.

Neither the allocation nor the call to request_free_mem_region() has to
be done under the lock so I moved those to the start of the function.

Fixes: b2ef9f5a5cb3 ("mm/hmm/test: add selftest driver for HMM")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
It's weird that I didn't catch the use after free when this code was
merged in May... My bad. Not sure what happened there. How I found
this was that I have been reviewing release_mem_region() leaks and the
NULL dereference path is a leak.


Thanks for fixing this. I missed it too. :-)

lib/test_hmm.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/test_hmm.c b/lib/test_hmm.c
index c8133f50160b..0503c78cb322 100644
--- a/lib/test_hmm.c
+++ b/lib/test_hmm.c
@@ -459,6 +459,22 @@ static bool dmirror_allocate_chunk(struct dmirror_device *mdevice,
unsigned long pfn_last;
void *ptr;
+ devmem = kzalloc(sizeof(*devmem), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!devmem)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ res = request_free_mem_region(&iomem_resource, DEVMEM_CHUNK_SIZE,
+ "hmm_dmirror");
+ if (IS_ERR(res))
+ goto err_devmem;
+
+ devmem->pagemap.type = MEMORY_DEVICE_PRIVATE;
+ devmem->pagemap.range.start = res->start;
+ devmem->pagemap.range.end = res->end;
+ devmem->pagemap.nr_range = 1;
+ devmem->pagemap.ops = &dmirror_devmem_ops;
+ devmem->pagemap.owner = mdevice;
+
mutex_lock(&mdevice->devmem_lock);
if (mdevice->devmem_count == mdevice->devmem_capacity) {
@@ -471,30 +487,16 @@ static bool dmirror_allocate_chunk(struct dmirror_device *mdevice,
sizeof(new_chunks[0]) * new_capacity,
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!new_chunks)

Need to call mutex_unlock(&mdevice->devmem_lock).
In fact, why not make this goto err_unlock and add
err_unlock: mutex_unlock() before the err_release:.

- goto err;
+ goto err_release;> mdevice->devmem_capacity = new_capacity;
mdevice->devmem_chunks = new_chunks;
}
- res = request_free_mem_region(&iomem_resource, DEVMEM_CHUNK_SIZE,
- "hmm_dmirror");
- if (IS_ERR(res))
- goto err;
-
- devmem = kzalloc(sizeof(*devmem), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!devmem)
- goto err_release;
-
- devmem->pagemap.type = MEMORY_DEVICE_PRIVATE;
- devmem->pagemap.range.start = res->start;
- devmem->pagemap.range.end = res->end;
- devmem->pagemap.nr_range = 1;
- devmem->pagemap.ops = &dmirror_devmem_ops;
- devmem->pagemap.owner = mdevice;
-
ptr = memremap_pages(&devmem->pagemap, numa_node_id());
- if (IS_ERR(ptr))
- goto err_free;
+ if (IS_ERR(ptr)) {
+ mutex_unlock(&mdevice->devmem_lock);
+ goto err_release;
+ }

This could then be just goto err_unlock.

devmem->mdevice = mdevice;
pfn_first = devmem->pagemap.range.start >> PAGE_SHIFT;
@@ -525,12 +527,11 @@ static bool dmirror_allocate_chunk(struct dmirror_device *mdevice,
return true;
-err_free:
- kfree(devmem);
err_release:
release_mem_region(devmem->pagemap.range.start, range_len(&devmem->pagemap.range));
-err:
- mutex_unlock(&mdevice->devmem_lock);
+err_devmem:
+ kfree(devmem);
+
return false;
}

With the suggested change, you can add
Reviewed-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@xxxxxxxxxx>