[PATCH 02/69] Revert "ACPI: custom_method: fix memory leaks"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

This reverts commit 03d1571d9513369c17e6848476763ebbd10ec2cb.

While /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/custom_method is already a privileged-only
API providing proxied arbitrary write access to kernel memory[1][2],
with existing race conditions[3] in buffer allocation and use that could
lead to memory leaks and use-after-free conditions, the above commit
appears to accidentally make the use-after-free conditions even easier
to accomplish. ("buf" is a global variable and prior kfree()s would set
buf back to NULL.)

This entire interface needs to be reworked (if not entirely removed).

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20110222193250.GA23913@xxxxxxxxxxx/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/201906221659.B618D83@keescook/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20170109231323.GA89642@beast/

Cc: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 03d1571d9513 ("ACPI: custom_method: fix memory leaks")
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/acpi/custom_method.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/custom_method.c b/drivers/acpi/custom_method.c
index 443fdf62dd22..72469a49837d 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/custom_method.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/custom_method.c
@@ -53,10 +53,8 @@ static ssize_t cm_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buf,
 	if ((*ppos > max_size) ||
 	    (*ppos + count > max_size) ||
 	    (*ppos + count < count) ||
-	    (count > uncopied_bytes)) {
-		kfree(buf);
+	    (count > uncopied_bytes))
 		return -EINVAL;
-	}
 
 	if (copy_from_user(buf + (*ppos), user_buf, count)) {
 		kfree(buf);
@@ -76,7 +74,6 @@ static ssize_t cm_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buf,
 		add_taint(TAINT_OVERRIDDEN_ACPI_TABLE, LOCKDEP_NOW_UNRELIABLE);
 	}
 
-	kfree(buf);
 	return count;
 }
 
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2.31.1