Re: [PATCH RFC] ubi: gluebi: Fix NULL pointer dereference caused by ftl notifier

From: Zhihao Cheng
Date: Thu Oct 12 2023 - 04:18:25 EST


在 2023/10/12 16:04, ZhaoLong Wang 写道:
I'm very happy to receive a reply to the review.

2. fd = open(/dev/ubi0_0, O_WRONLY)
     ubi_open_volume  // vol->writers = 1

          P1                    P2
    gluebi_create -> mtd_device_register -> add_mtd_device:
    device_register   // dev/mtd1 is visible

                      fd = open(/dev/mtd1, O_WRONLY)
                       gluebi_get_device
                        gluebi->desc = ubi_open_volume
                         gluebi->desc = ERR_PTR(EBUSY)

    ftl_add_mtd
     mtd_read
      gluebi_read
       gluebi->desc is ERR_PTR       (√)

The reproduction steps for situations 2 and 3 have been added to link[1].
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217992 [1]

3.         P1                    P2
    gluebi_create -> mtd_device_register -> add_mtd_device:
    device_register   // dev/mtd1 is visible

                      fd = open(/dev/mtd1, O_WRONLY)
                       gluebi_get_device
                        gluebi->desc = ubi_open_volume

    ftl_add_mtd
     mtd_read
      gluebi_read
       gluebi->desc is not ERR_PTR/NULL

                     close(fd)
                      gluebi_put_device
                       ubi_close_volume
                        kfree(desc)
       ubi_read(gluebi->desc)   // UAF  (×)


Yes, it's also a problem. Perhaps it should be set to NULL after
destroying gluebi->desc.

The key point is that 'gluebi->desc' check & usage is not atomic in gluebi_read. So following patch still can't handle situation 3.



No need to modify 'gluebi_write' and 'gluebi_erase'.


The patch is as follows:

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/gluebi.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/gluebi.c
index 1b980d15d9fb..8fc6017d1155 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/gluebi.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/gluebi.c
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ static int gluebi_get_device(struct mtd_info *mtd)
 {
     struct gluebi_device *gluebi;
     int ubi_mode = UBI_READONLY;
+    struct ubi_volume_desc *vdesc;

     if (mtd->flags & MTD_WRITEABLE)
         ubi_mode = UBI_READWRITE;
@@ -109,12 +110,14 @@ static int gluebi_get_device(struct mtd_info *mtd)
      * This is the first reference to this UBI volume via the MTD device
      * interface. Open the corresponding volume in read-write mode.
      */
-    gluebi->desc = ubi_open_volume(gluebi->ubi_num, gluebi->vol_id,
+    vdesc = ubi_open_volume(gluebi->ubi_num, gluebi->vol_id,
                        ubi_mode);
-    if (IS_ERR(gluebi->desc)) {
+    if (IS_ERR(vdesc)) {
+        gluebi->desc = NULL;
         mutex_unlock(&devices_mutex);
-        return PTR_ERR(gluebi->desc);
+        return PTR_ERR(vdesc);
     }
+    gluebi->desc = vdesc;
     gluebi->refcnt += 1;
     mutex_unlock(&devices_mutex);
     return 0;
@@ -134,8 +137,10 @@ static void gluebi_put_device(struct mtd_info *mtd)
     gluebi = container_of(mtd, struct gluebi_device, mtd);
     mutex_lock(&devices_mutex);
     gluebi->refcnt -= 1;
-    if (gluebi->refcnt == 0)
+    if (gluebi->refcnt == 0) {
         ubi_close_volume(gluebi->desc);
+        gluebi->desc = NULL;
+    }
     mutex_unlock(&devices_mutex);
 }

@@ -154,9 +159,26 @@ static int gluebi_read(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t from, size_t len,
                size_t *retlen, unsigned char *buf)
 {
     int err = 0, lnum, offs, bytes_left;
-    struct gluebi_device *gluebi;
+    struct gluebi_device *gluebi = container_of(mtd, struct gluebi_device,
+                            mtd);
+    int isnt_get = unlikely(gluebi->desc == NULL) ? 1 : 0;
+
+    /**
+     * In normal case, the UBI volume desc has been initialized by
+     * ->_get_device(). However, in the ftl notifier process, the
+     * ->_get_device() is not executed in advance and the MTD device
+     * is directly scanned  which cause null pointe dereference.
+     * Therefore, try to get the MTD device here.
+     */
+    if (unlikely(isnt_get)) {
+        err = __get_mtd_device(mtd);
+        if (err) {
+            err_msg("cannot get MTD device %d, UBI device %d, volume %d, error %d",
+                mtd->index, gluebi->ubi_num, gluebi->vol_id, err);
+            return err;
+        }
+    }

-    gluebi = container_of(mtd, struct gluebi_device, mtd);
     lnum = div_u64_rem(from, mtd->erasesize, &offs);
     bytes_left = len;
     while (bytes_left) {
@@ -176,6 +198,9 @@ static int gluebi_read(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t from, size_t len,
     }

     *retlen = len - bytes_left;
+
+    if (unlikely(isnt_get))
+        __put_mtd_device(mtd);
     return err;
 }



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