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Commit 281e878e authored by Lukas Wunner's avatar Lukas Wunner Committed by Bjorn Helgaas
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PCI: pciehp: Fix use-after-free on unplug

When pciehp is unbound (e.g. on unplug of a Thunderbolt device), the
hotplug_slot struct is deregistered and thus freed before freeing the
IRQ.  The IRQ handler and the work items it schedules print the slot
name referenced from the freed structure in various informational and
debug log messages, each time resulting in a quadruple dereference of
freed pointers (hotplug_slot -> pci_slot -> kobject -> name).

At best the slot name is logged as "(null)", at worst kernel memory is
exposed in logs or the driver crashes:

  pciehp 0000:10:00.0:pcie204: Slot((null)): Card not present

An attacker may provoke the bug by unplugging multiple devices on a
Thunderbolt daisy chain at once.  Unplugging can also be simulated by
powering down slots via sysfs.  The bug is particularly easy to trigger
in poll mode.

It has been present since the driver's introduction in 2004:
https://git.kernel.org/tglx/history/c/c16b4b14d980



Fix by rearranging teardown such that the IRQ is freed first.  Run the
work items queued by the IRQ handler to completion before freeing the
hotplug_slot struct by draining the work queue from the ->release_slot
callback which is invoked by pci_hp_deregister().

Signed-off-by: default avatarLukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.4
parent 4ce64358
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