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

[Ralph Campbell]

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>