[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "PCI/AER: Flush workqueue on device remove to avoid use-after-free" has been added to the 3.13.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    PCI/AER: Flush workqueue on device remove to avoid use-after-free

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt36.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy at linutronix.de>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:08:00 -0600
Subject: PCI/AER: Flush workqueue on device remove to avoid use-after-free

commit 4ae2182b1e3407de369f8c5d799543b7db74221b upstream.

A Root Port's AER structure (rpc) contains a queue of events.  aer_irq()
enqueues AER status information and schedules aer_isr() to dequeue and
process it.  When we remove a device, aer_remove() waits for the queue to
be empty, then frees the rpc struct.

But aer_isr() references the rpc struct after dequeueing and possibly
emptying the queue, which can cause a use-after-free error as in the
following scenario with two threads, aer_isr() on the left and a
concurrent aer_remove() on the right:

  Thread A                      Thread B
  --------                      --------
  aer_irq():
    rpc->prod_idx++
                                aer_remove():
                                  wait_event(rpc->prod_idx == rpc->cons_idx)
                                  # now blocked until queue becomes empty
  aer_isr():                      # ...
    rpc->cons_idx++               # unblocked because queue is now empty
    ...                           kfree(rpc)
    mutex_unlock(&rpc->rpc_mutex)

To prevent this problem, use flush_work() to wait until the last scheduled
instance of aer_isr() has completed before freeing the rpc struct in
aer_remove().

I reproduced this use-after-free by flashing a device FPGA and
re-enumerating the bus to find the new device.  With SLUB debug, this
crashes with 0x6b bytes (POISON_FREE, the use-after-free magic number) in
GPR25:

  pcieport 0000:00:00.0: AER: Multiple Corrected error received: id=0000
  Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x27ef9e3e
  Workqueue: events aer_isr
  GPR24: dd6aa000 6b6b6b6b 605f8378 605f8360 d99b12c0 604fc674 606b1704 d99b12c0
  NIP [602f5328] pci_walk_bus+0xd4/0x104

[bhelgaas: changelog, stable tag]
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy at linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv.c      | 4 +---
 drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv.h      | 1 -
 drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv_core.c | 2 --
 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv.c
index 0bf82a2..48d21e0 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv.c
@@ -262,7 +262,6 @@ static struct aer_rpc *aer_alloc_rpc(struct pcie_device *dev)
 	rpc->rpd = dev;
 	INIT_WORK(&rpc->dpc_handler, aer_isr);
 	mutex_init(&rpc->rpc_mutex);
-	init_waitqueue_head(&rpc->wait_release);

 	/* Use PCIe bus function to store rpc into PCIe device */
 	set_service_data(dev, rpc);
@@ -285,8 +284,7 @@ static void aer_remove(struct pcie_device *dev)
 		if (rpc->isr)
 			free_irq(dev->irq, dev);

-		wait_event(rpc->wait_release, rpc->prod_idx == rpc->cons_idx);
-
+		flush_work(&rpc->dpc_handler);
 		aer_disable_rootport(rpc);
 		kfree(rpc);
 		set_service_data(dev, NULL);
diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv.h b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv.h
index 84420b7..945c939 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv.h
+++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv.h
@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ struct aer_rpc {
 					 * recovery on the same
 					 * root port hierarchy
 					 */
-	wait_queue_head_t wait_release;
 };

 struct aer_broadcast_data {
diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv_core.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv_core.c
index b2c8881..777edcc 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv_core.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv_core.c
@@ -785,8 +785,6 @@ void aer_isr(struct work_struct *work)
 	while (get_e_source(rpc, &e_src))
 		aer_isr_one_error(p_device, &e_src);
 	mutex_unlock(&rpc->rpc_mutex);
-
-	wake_up(&rpc->wait_release);
 }

 /**
--
2.7.0