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Commit 5b28dde5 authored by Shuah Khan's avatar Shuah Khan Committed by Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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[media] media: fix use-after-free in cdev_put() when app exits after driver unbind



When driver unbinds while media_ioctl is in progress, cdev_put() fails with
when app exits after driver unbinds.

Add devnode struct device kobj as the cdev parent kobject. cdev_add() gets
a reference to it and releases it in cdev_del() ensuring that the devnode
is not deallocated as long as the application has the device file open.

media_devnode_register() initializes the struct device kobj before calling
cdev_add(). media_devnode_unregister() does cdev_del() and then deletes the
device. devnode is released when the last reference to the struct device is
gone.

This problem is found on uvcvideo, em28xx, and au0828 drivers and fix has
been tested on all three.

kernel: [  193.599736] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in cdev_put+0x4e/0x50
kernel: [  193.599745] Read of size 8 by task media_device_te/1851
kernel: [  193.599792] INFO: Allocated in __media_device_register+0x54
kernel: [  193.599951] INFO: Freed in media_devnode_release+0xa4/0xc0

kernel: [  193.601083] Call Trace:
kernel: [  193.601093]  [<ffffffff81aecac3>] dump_stack+0x67/0x94
kernel: [  193.601102]  [<ffffffff815359b2>] print_trailer+0x112/0x1a0
kernel: [  193.601111]  [<ffffffff8153b5e4>] object_err+0x34/0x40
kernel: [  193.601119]  [<ffffffff8153d9d4>] kasan_report_error+0x224/0x530
kernel: [  193.601128]  [<ffffffff814a2c3d>] ? kzfree+0x2d/0x40
kernel: [  193.601137]  [<ffffffff81539d72>] ? kfree+0x1d2/0x1f0
kernel: [  193.601154]  [<ffffffff8157ca7e>] ? cdev_put+0x4e/0x50
kernel: [  193.601162]  [<ffffffff8157ca7e>] cdev_put+0x4e/0x50
kernel: [  193.601170]  [<ffffffff815767eb>] __fput+0x52b/0x6c0
kernel: [  193.601179]  [<ffffffff8117743a>] ? switch_task_namespaces+0x2a
kernel: [  193.601188]  [<ffffffff815769ee>] ____fput+0xe/0x10
kernel: [  193.601196]  [<ffffffff81170023>] task_work_run+0x133/0x1f0
kernel: [  193.601204]  [<ffffffff8117746e>] ? switch_task_namespaces+0x5e
kernel: [  193.601213]  [<ffffffff8111b50c>] do_exit+0x72c/0x2c20
kernel: [  193.601224]  [<ffffffff8111ade0>] ? release_task+0x1250/0x1250
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kernel: [  193.601360]  [<ffffffff81003587>] ? exit_to_usermode_loop+0xe7
kernel: [  193.601368]  [<ffffffff810035c0>] exit_to_usermode_loop+0x120
kernel: [  193.601376]  [<ffffffff810061da>] syscall_return_slowpath+0x16a
kernel: [  193.601386]  [<ffffffff82848b33>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0xa6

Signed-off-by: default avatarShuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Tested-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
parent a087ce70
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