[PATCH 3.16 150/370] usb: xhci: fix possible wild pointer

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Fri Mar 10 2017 - 08:48:12 EST


3.16.42-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 2b985467371a58ae44d76c7ba12b0951fee6ed98 upstream.

handle_cmd_completion() frees a command structure which might be still
referenced by xhci->current_cmd.
This might cause problem when xhci->current_cmd is accessed after that.

A real-life case could be like this. The host takes a very long time to
respond to a command, and the command timer is fired at the same time
when the command completion event arrives. The command completion
handler frees xhci->current_cmd before the timer function can grab
xhci->lock. Afterward, timer function grabs the lock and go ahead with
checking and setting members of xhci->current_cmd.

Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
--- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c
@@ -1292,13 +1292,16 @@ void xhci_handle_command_timeout(unsigne
struct xhci_command *cur_cmd = NULL;
xhci = (struct xhci_hcd *) data;

- /* mark this command to be cancelled */
spin_lock_irqsave(&xhci->lock, flags);
- if (xhci->current_cmd) {
- cur_cmd = xhci->current_cmd;
- cur_cmd->status = COMP_CMD_ABORT;
+
+ if (!xhci->current_cmd) {
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&xhci->lock, flags);
+ return;
}

+ /* mark this command to be cancelled */
+ cur_cmd = xhci->current_cmd;
+ cur_cmd->status = COMP_CMD_ABORT;

/* Make sure command ring is running before aborting it */
hw_ring_state = xhci_read_64(xhci, &xhci->op_regs->cmd_ring);
@@ -1440,6 +1443,8 @@ static void handle_cmd_completion(struct
xhci->current_cmd = list_entry(cmd->cmd_list.next,
struct xhci_command, cmd_list);
mod_timer(&xhci->cmd_timer, jiffies + XHCI_CMD_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT);
+ } else if (xhci->current_cmd == cmd) {
+ xhci->current_cmd = NULL;
}

event_handled: