Re: [syzbot] general protection fault in hci_release_dev

[Tetsuo Handa]

Hello.

On 2021/08/02 18:54, Hillf Danton wrote:
> To fix what was addressed in e305509e678b3a4a, defer putting hdev until
> sock is released with sock locked.
> 
> Now only for thoughts.

Thanks for your analysis.

hci_alloc_dev() is called from hci_uart_register_dev() from  hci_uart_set_proto()
 from hci_uart_tty_ioctl(HCIUARTSETPROTO) via ld->ops->ioctl() from tty_ioctl(),
and bt_host_release() is called from device_release() from kobject_put() from
hci_uart_tty_close() from tty_ldisc_kill() from tty_ldisc_release() from
tty_release_struct() from tty_release() from __fput().

The problem is that bt_host_release() is expecting that hci_register_dev()
was called if "struct hci_dev" was allocated by hci_alloc_dev(). In other
words, hci_register_dev() might not be called before bt_host_release().

Then, the fix I think is not to call hci_release_dev() when hci_unregister_dev()
was not called. That is,

 static void bt_host_release(struct device *dev)
 {
        struct hci_dev *hdev = to_hci_dev(dev);
+
+       if (hci_dev_test_flag(hdev, HCI_UNREGISTER))
+               hci_release_dev(hdev);
        kfree(hdev);
        module_put(THIS_MODULE);
 }

and remove kfree(hdev) from hci_release_dev(), for HCI_UNREGISTER flag is
set if hci_unregister_dev() was called before bt_host_release() is called.