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Commit a4b0a9b8 authored by Siddh Raman Pant's avatar Siddh Raman Pant Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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nfc: llcp_core: Hold a ref to llcp_local->dev when holding a ref to llcp_local

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llcp_sock_sendmsg() calls nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame() which in turn calls
nfc_alloc_send_skb(), which accesses the nfc_dev from the llcp_sock for
getting the headroom and tailroom needed for skb allocation.

Parallelly the nfc_dev can be freed, as the refcount is decreased via
nfc_free_device(), leading to a UAF reported by Syzkaller, which can
be summarized as follows:

(1) llcp_sock_sendmsg() -> nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame()
	-> nfc_alloc_send_skb() -> Dereference *nfc_dev
(2) virtual_ncidev_close() -> nci_free_device() -> nfc_free_device()
	-> put_device() -> nfc_release() -> Free *nfc_dev

When a reference to llcp_local is acquired, we do not acquire the same
for the nfc_dev. This leads to freeing even when the llcp_local is in
use, and this is the case with the UAF described above too.

Thus, when we acquire a reference to llcp_local, we should acquire a
reference to nfc_dev, and release the references appropriately later.

References for llcp_local is initialized in nfc_llcp_register_device()
(which is called by nfc_register_device()). Thus, we should acquire a
reference to nfc_dev there.

nfc_unregister_device() calls nfc_llcp_unregister_device() which in
turn calls nfc_llcp_local_put(). Thus, the reference to nfc_dev is
appropriately released later.

Reported-and-tested-by: default avatar <syzbot+bbe84a4010eeea00982d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=bbe84a4010eeea00982d
Fixes: c7aa1225

 ("NFC: Take a reference on the LLCP local pointer when creating a socket")
Reviewed-by: default avatarSuman Ghosh <sumang@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSiddh Raman Pant <code@siddh.me>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKrzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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