Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 4 authors, 2020-01-14
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[PATCH] ptp: free ptp device pin descriptors properly

From: Vladis Dronov <hidden>
Date: 2020-01-13 13:00:55
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: networking drivers, ptp hardware clock support, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Richard Cochran, Linus Torvalds

There is a bug in ptp_clock_unregister(), where ptp_cleanup_pin_groups()
first frees ptp->pin_{,dev_}attr, but then posix_clock_unregister() needs
them to destroy a related sysfs device.

These functions can not be just swapped, as posix_clock_unregister() frees
ptp which is needed in the ptp_cleanup_pin_groups(). Fix this by calling
ptp_cleanup_pin_groups() in ptp_clock_release(), right before ptp is freed.

This makes this patch fix an UAF bug in a patch which fixes an UAF bug.

Reported-by: Antti Laakso <redacted>
Fixes: a33121e5487b ("ptp: fix the race between the release of ptp_clock and cdev")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/3d2bd09735dbdaf003585ca376b7c1e5b69a19bd.camel@intel.com/ (local)
Signed-off-by: Vladis Dronov <redacted>
---
 drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c b/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
index 61fafe0374ce..b84f16bbd6f2 100644
--- a/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
+++ b/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ static void ptp_clock_release(struct device *dev)
 {
 	struct ptp_clock *ptp = container_of(dev, struct ptp_clock, dev);
 
+	ptp_cleanup_pin_groups(ptp);
 	mutex_destroy(&ptp->tsevq_mux);
 	mutex_destroy(&ptp->pincfg_mux);
 	ida_simple_remove(&ptp_clocks_map, ptp->index);
@@ -302,9 +303,8 @@ int ptp_clock_unregister(struct ptp_clock *ptp)
 	if (ptp->pps_source)
 		pps_unregister_source(ptp->pps_source);
 
-	ptp_cleanup_pin_groups(ptp);
-
 	posix_clock_unregister(&ptp->clock);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ptp_clock_unregister);
-- 
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