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xhci: fix null-pointer dereference when destroying half-built segment rings 

xhci_alloc_segments_for_ring() builds a list of xhci_segments and links
the tail to head at the end (forming a ring). When it bails out for OOM
reasons half-way through, it tries to destroy its half-built list with
xhci_free_segments_for_ring(), even though it is not a ring yet. This
causes a null-pointer dereference upon hitting the last element.

Furthermore, one of its callers (xhci_ring_alloc()) mistakenly believes
the output parameters to be valid upon this kind of OOM failure, and
calls xhci_ring_free() on them. Since the (incomplete) list/ring should
already be destroyed in that case, this would lead to a use after free.

This patch fixes those issues by having xhci_alloc_segments_for_ring()
destroy its half-built, non-circular list manually and destroying the
invalid struct xhci_ring in xhci_ring_alloc() with a plain kfree().

This patch should be backported to kernels as old as 2.6.31, that
contains the commit 0ebbab3742 "USB: xhci:
Ring allocation and initialization."

A separate patch will need to be developed for kernels older than 3.4,
since the ring allocation code was refactored in that kernel.

Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Julius Werner 2012-11-01 12:47:59 -07:00 committed by Sarah Sharp
parent 4525c0a10d
commit 68e5254adb
1 changed files with 7 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -205,7 +205,12 @@ static int xhci_alloc_segments_for_ring(struct xhci_hcd *xhci,
next = xhci_segment_alloc(xhci, cycle_state, flags);
if (!next) {
xhci_free_segments_for_ring(xhci, *first);
prev = *first;
while (prev) {
next = prev->next;
xhci_segment_free(xhci, prev);
prev = next;
}
return -ENOMEM;
}
xhci_link_segments(xhci, prev, next, type);
@ -258,7 +263,7 @@ static struct xhci_ring *xhci_ring_alloc(struct xhci_hcd *xhci,
return ring;
fail:
xhci_ring_free(xhci, ring);
kfree(ring);
return NULL;
}