Re: [PATCH] i2c-hid: Disable IRQ before freeing buffers

[Benjamin Tissoires]

On Dec 06 2016 or thereabouts, JoÃo Paulo Rechi Vita wrote:
> The HID report buffers that are initially allocated on i2c_hid_probe()
> might not be big enough to hold the HID reports from a specific device,
> in which case they will be freed and new ones will be allocated in
> i2c_hid_start(), at point which the device's report size is known. But
> at this point ihid->irq is already running, and may call
> i2c_hid_get_input() which passes ihid->inbuf to i2c_master_recv(). Since
> this handler runs in a separate thread, ihid->inbuf may be freed at this
> very moment, and i2c_master_recv() will write on memory which may be
> already owned by a different part of the kernel, corrupting its data.
> 
> This problem has been observed on an Asus UX360UA laptop which has an
> I2C touchpad, and results in a complete system freeze or an unusable
> slowness with a lof of "BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at
> <address>" warnings. Enabling SLUB debugging shows a use-after-free
> warning on memory allocated in i2c_hid_alloc_buffers() and freed in
> i2c_hid_free_buffers():
> 
> =============================================================================
> BUG kmalloc-64 (Not tainted): Poison overwritten
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
> INFO: 0xffff880264083273-0xffff88026408329e. first byte 0x0 instead of 0x6b
> INFO: Allocated in i2c_hid_alloc_buffers+0x25/0xa0 [i2c_hid] age=35793 cpu=2 pid=430
> 	___slab_alloc+0x41e/0x460
> 	__slab_alloc+0x20/0x40
> 	__kmalloc+0x210/0x280
> 	i2c_hid_alloc_buffers+0x25/0xa0 [i2c_hid]
> 	i2c_hid_probe+0x12f/0x5e0 [i2c_hid]
> 	i2c_device_probe+0x10a/0x1b0
> 	driver_probe_device+0x220/0x4a0
> 	__device_attach_driver+0x71/0xa0
> 	bus_for_each_drv+0x67/0xb0
> 	__device_attach+0xdc/0x170
> 	device_initial_probe+0x13/0x20
> 	bus_probe_device+0x92/0xa0
> 	device_add+0x4aa/0x670
> 	device_register+0x1a/0x20
> 	i2c_new_device+0x18e/0x230
> 	acpi_i2c_add_device+0x1a0/0x210
> INFO: Freed in i2c_hid_free_buffers+0x16/0x60 [i2c_hid] age=7552 cpu=1 pid=1473
> 	__slab_free+0x221/0x330
> 	kfree+0x139/0x160
> 	i2c_hid_free_buffers+0x16/0x60 [i2c_hid]
> 	i2c_hid_start+0x2a9/0x2df [i2c_hid]
> 	mt_probe+0x160/0x22e [hid_multitouch]
> 	hid_device_probe+0xd7/0x150 [hid]
> 	driver_probe_device+0x220/0x4a0
> 	__driver_attach+0x84/0x90
> 	bus_for_each_dev+0x6c/0xc0
> 	driver_attach+0x1e/0x20
> 	bus_add_driver+0x1c3/0x280
> 	driver_register+0x60/0xe0
> 	__hid_register_driver+0x53/0x90 [hid]
> 	0xffffffffc004f01e
> 	do_one_initcall+0xb3/0x1f0
> 	do_init_module+0x5f/0x1d0
> INFO: Slab 0xffffea0009902080 objects=20 used=20 fp=0x          (null) flags=0x17fff8000004080
> INFO: Object 0xffff880264083260 @offset=4704 fp=0x          (null)
> Bytes b4 ffff880264083250: 8d e6 fe ff 00 00 00 00 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a  ........ZZZZZZZZ
> Object ffff880264083260: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
> Object ffff880264083270: 6b 6b 6b 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  kkk.............
> Object ffff880264083280: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> Object ffff880264083290: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> Redzone ffff8802640832a0: bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb                          ........
> Padding ffff8802640833e0: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a                          ZZZZZZZZ
> CPU: 1 PID: 1503 Comm: python3 Tainted: G    B           4.4.21+ #10
> Hardware name: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. UX360UA/UX360UA, BIOS UX360UA.200 05/05/2016
>  0000000000000086 00000000622d48a2 ffff88026061ba38 ffffffff813f6044
>  ffff880264082010 ffff880264083260 ffff88026061ba78 ffffffff811e8eab
>  0000000000000008 ffff880200000001 ffff88026408329f ffff88026a007700
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff813f6044>] dump_stack+0x63/0x8f
>  [<ffffffff811e8eab>] print_trailer+0x14b/0x1f0
>  [<ffffffff811e94c1>] check_bytes_and_report+0xc1/0x100
>  [<ffffffff811e96c4>] check_object+0x1c4/0x240
>  [<ffffffff81293fde>] ? ext4_htree_store_dirent+0x3e/0x120
>  [<ffffffff811e9b44>] alloc_debug_processing+0x104/0x180
>  [<ffffffff811eb7be>] ___slab_alloc+0x41e/0x460
>  [<ffffffff81293fde>] ? ext4_htree_store_dirent+0x3e/0x120
>  [<ffffffff8124590b>] ? __getblk_gfp+0x2b/0x60
>  [<ffffffff8129b969>] ? ext4_getblk+0xa9/0x190
>  [<ffffffff811eb820>] __slab_alloc+0x20/0x40
>  [<ffffffff811ed320>] __kmalloc+0x210/0x280
>  [<ffffffff81293fde>] ? ext4_htree_store_dirent+0x3e/0x120
>  [<ffffffff812c1602>] ? ext4fs_dirhash+0xc2/0x2a0
>  [<ffffffff81293fde>] ext4_htree_store_dirent+0x3e/0x120
>  [<ffffffff812a4f47>] htree_dirblock_to_tree+0x187/0x1b0
>  [<ffffffff812a5fd2>] ext4_htree_fill_tree+0xb2/0x2e0
>  [<ffffffff811ebb7a>] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1fa/0x220
>  [<ffffffff81293e45>] ? ext4_readdir+0x775/0x8b0
>  [<ffffffff81293cb1>] ext4_readdir+0x5e1/0x8b0
>  [<ffffffff81221c82>] iterate_dir+0x92/0x120
>  [<ffffffff81222118>] SyS_getdents+0x98/0x110
>  [<ffffffff81221d10>] ? iterate_dir+0x120/0x120
>  [<ffffffff818157f2>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x16/0x71
> FIX kmalloc-64: Restoring 0xffff880264083273-0xffff88026408329e=0x6b
> FIX kmalloc-64: Marking all objects used
> 
> Signed-off-by: JoÃo Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Good catch (and very well documented).

Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,
Benjamin

>  drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid.c b/drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid.c
> index b3ec4f2..d4c2f2d 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid.c
> @@ -716,9 +716,11 @@ static int i2c_hid_start(struct hid_device *hid)
>  	i2c_hid_find_max_report(hid, HID_FEATURE_REPORT, &bufsize);
>  
>  	if (bufsize > ihid->bufsize) {
> +		disable_irq(ihid->irq);
>  		i2c_hid_free_buffers(ihid);
>  
>  		ret = i2c_hid_alloc_buffers(ihid, bufsize);
> +		enable_irq(ihid->irq);
>  
>  		if (ret)
>  			return ret;
> -- 
> 2.10.2
>