Re: [PATCH v3] iio: core: fix double free in iio_device_unregister_sysfs()

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Sun Oct 17 2021 - 12:10:56 EST


On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 08:51:38 +0300
Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wednesday, October 13, 2021, Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
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> > On Wednesday, October 13, 2021, Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> >> I got the double free report:
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> >> BUG: KASAN: double-free or invalid-free in kfree+0xce/0x390
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> >> kfree+0xce/0x390
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> > This line also redundant, but no need to resend, I hope Jonathan can do it
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> >> iio_device_unregister_sysfs+0x108/0x13b [industrialio]
> >> iio_dev_release+0x9e/0x10e [
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> >> device_release+0xa5/0x240
> >> kobject_put+0x1e5/0x540
> >> put_device+0x20/0x30
> >> devm_iio_device_release+0x21/0x30 [industrialio]
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> Actually above lines are also part of the noise
Not sure I'm quite so keen to strip everything back completely (though I do
agree keeping it fairly minimal is good.

Anyhow, tidied it up a bit and applied. I also added a note that more
radical surgery is needed to clean up the lifetime management but in the
meantime this deals with the symptoms.

Applied to the fixes-togreg branch of iio.git and marked for stable.

Thanks,

Jonathan

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> >> 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.
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> >> Fixes: 32f171724e5c ("iio: core: rework iio device group creation")
> >> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Reviewed-by: Alexandru Ardelean <ardeleanalex@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> v1 -> v3:
> >> reduce some backtrace in commit message
> >> ---
> >> drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c | 1 +
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
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> >> 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;
> >> }
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> >> static void iio_dev_release(struct device *device)
> >> --
> >> 2.25.1
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> > --
> > With Best Regards,
> > Andy Shevchenko
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