Re: [PATCH] iio: core: fix double free in iio_device_unregister_sysfs()

[Alexandru Ardelean]

On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 9:32 AM Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I got the double free report:
>
> [   68.308365][  T359] BUG: KASAN: double-free or invalid-free in kfree+0xce/0x390
> [   68.309532][  T359]
> [   68.309886][  T359] CPU: 0 PID: 359 Comm: xrun Tainted: G        W         5.15.0-rc3-00109-g4dfd49fafc4d-dirty #474 523b7f3c65c42247635e2ac04a95f61f9f36678d
> [   68.312059][  T359] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
> [   68.313566][  T359] Call Trace:
> [   68.314063][  T359]  dump_stack_lvl+0xe2/0x152
> [   68.314793][  T359]  print_address_description.constprop.7+0x21/0x150
> [   68.315842][  T359]  ? kfree+0xce/0x390
> [   68.316444][  T359]  kasan_report_invalid_free+0x6f/0xa0
> [   68.317289][  T359]  ? kfree+0xce/0x390
> [   68.317902][  T359]  __kasan_slab_free+0x125/0x140
> [   68.318660][  T359]  slab_free_freelist_hook+0x10d/0x240
> [   68.319497][  T359]  ? iio_device_unregister_sysfs+0x108/0x13b [industrialio]
> [   68.321179][  T359]  kfree+0xce/0x390
> [   68.321781][  T359]  iio_device_unregister_sysfs+0x108/0x13b [industrialio]
> [   68.323438][  T359]  iio_dev_release+0x9e/0x10e [industrialio]
> [   68.324902][  T359]  ? iio_device_unregister_sysfs+0x13b/0x13b [industrialio]
> [   68.326550][  T359]  device_release+0xa5/0x240
> [   68.327258][  T359]  kobject_put+0x1e5/0x540
> [   68.327954][  T359]  put_device+0x20/0x30
> [   68.328612][  T359]  devm_iio_device_release+0x21/0x30 [industrialio]
> [   68.330172][  T359]  release_nodes+0xc3/0x3b0
> [   68.330874][  T359]  ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x1d/0x50
> [   68.331765][  T359]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4b/0x5d
> [   68.332668][  T359]  ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x63/0x2d0
> [   68.333509][  T359]  devres_release_group+0x1da/0x2c0
> [   68.334325][  T359]  ? release_nodes+0x3b0/0x3b0
> [   68.335069][  T359]  ? __devm_iio_device_register+0x36/0x80 [industrialio]
> [   68.336721][  T359]  ? max517_probe+0x3df/0x6b0 [max517]
> [   68.338122][  T359]  i2c_device_probe+0x628/0xbb0
> [   68.338886][  T359]  ? i2c_device_match+0x110/0x110
> [   68.339674][  T359]  really_probe+0x285/0xc30
>
> If __iio_device_register() fails, iio_dev_opaque->groups will be freed
> in error path in iio_device_unregister_sysfs(), then iio_dev_release()
> will call iio_device_unregister_sysfs() again, it causes double free.
> Set iio_dev_opaque->groups to NULL when it's freed to fix this double free.
>

Thanks for catching this.

Reviewed-by: Alexandru Ardelean <ardeleanalex@xxxxxxxxx>

> Fixes: 32f171724e5c ("iio: core: rework iio device group creation")
> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
> index 2dbb37e09b8c..2dc837db50f7 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
> @@ -1600,6 +1600,7 @@ static void iio_device_unregister_sysfs(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
>         kfree(iio_dev_opaque->chan_attr_group.attrs);
>         iio_dev_opaque->chan_attr_group.attrs = NULL;
>         kfree(iio_dev_opaque->groups);
> +       iio_dev_opaque->groups = NULL;
>  }
>
>  static void iio_dev_release(struct device *device)
> --
> 2.25.1
>