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Alan Stern 449a8d08a4 p54usb: Fix race between disconnect and firmware loading
commit 6e41e2257f upstream.

The syzbot fuzzer found a bug in the p54 USB wireless driver.  The
issue involves a race between disconnect and the firmware-loader
callback routine, and it has several aspects.

One big problem is that when the firmware can't be loaded, the
callback routine tries to unbind the driver from the USB _device_ (by
calling device_release_driver) instead of from the USB _interface_ to
which it is actually bound (by calling usb_driver_release_interface).

The race involves access to the private data structure.  The driver's
disconnect handler waits for a completion that is signalled by the
firmware-loader callback routine.  As soon as the completion is
signalled, you have to assume that the private data structure may have
been deallocated by the disconnect handler -- even if the firmware was
loaded without errors.  However, the callback routine does access the
private data several times after that point.

Another problem is that, in order to ensure that the USB device
structure hasn't been freed when the callback routine runs, the driver
takes a reference to it.  This isn't good enough any more, because now
that the callback routine calls usb_driver_release_interface, it has
to ensure that the interface structure hasn't been freed.

Finally, the driver takes an unnecessary reference to the USB device
structure in the probe function and drops the reference in the
disconnect handler.  This extra reference doesn't accomplish anything,
because the USB core already guarantees that a device structure won't
be deallocated while a driver is still bound to any of its interfaces.

To fix these problems, this patch makes the following changes:

	Call usb_driver_release_interface() rather than
	device_release_driver().

	Don't signal the completion until after the important
	information has been copied out of the private data structure,
	and don't refer to the private data at all thereafter.

	Lock udev (the interface's parent) before unbinding the driver
	instead of locking udev->parent.

	During the firmware loading process, take a reference to the
	USB interface instead of the USB device.

	Don't take an unnecessary reference to the device during probe
	(and then don't drop it during disconnect).

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+200d4bb11b23d929335f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-07-14 08:11:19 +02:00
arch x86/tls: Fix possible spectre-v1 in do_get_thread_area() 2019-07-14 08:11:17 +02:00
block block, bfq: NULL out the bic when it's no longer valid 2019-07-14 08:11:17 +02:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: cryptd - Fix skcipher instance memory leak 2019-07-10 09:53:41 +02:00
Documentation Documentation/admin: Remove the vsyscall=native documentation 2019-07-14 08:11:18 +02:00
drivers p54usb: Fix race between disconnect and firmware loading 2019-07-14 08:11:19 +02:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs udf: Fix incorrect final NOT_ALLOCATED (hole) extent length 2019-07-14 08:11:16 +02:00
include ALSA: usb-audio: Fix parse of UAC2 Extension Units 2019-07-14 08:11:16 +02:00
init initramfs: free initrd memory if opening /initrd.image fails 2019-06-15 11:54:01 +02:00
ipc ipc: prevent lockup on alloc_msg and free_msg 2019-06-15 11:54:00 +02:00
kernel bpf, devmap: Add missing RCU read lock on flush 2019-07-14 08:11:11 +02:00
lib lib/mpi: Fix karactx leak in mpi_powm 2019-07-10 09:53:42 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text 2018-10-18 11:28:50 +02:00
mm mm/vmscan.c: prevent useless kswapd loops 2019-07-10 09:53:44 +02:00
net net :sunrpc :clnt :Fix xps refcount imbalance on the error path 2019-07-14 08:11:15 +02:00
samples samples, bpf: suppress compiler warning 2019-07-14 08:11:04 +02:00
scripts scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: prefix addr2line with $CROSS_COMPILE 2019-07-10 09:53:39 +02:00
security apparmor: enforce nullbyte at end of tag string 2019-06-25 11:35:54 +08:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek - Headphone Mic can't record after S3 2019-07-14 08:11:16 +02:00
tools perf pmu: Fix uncore PMU alias list for ARM64 2019-07-14 08:11:17 +02:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Fix kvm_device leak in vgic_its_destroy 2019-07-14 08:11:10 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS platform/x86: Add Intel AtomISP2 dummy / power-management driver 2019-04-20 09:16:02 +02:00
Makefile Linux 4.19.58 2019-07-10 09:53:48 +02:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.