[SRU][Xenial][Yakkety] 8250_pci: Fix potential use-after-free in error path

Mauricio Faria de Oliveira mauricfo at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Mar 1 22:07:16 UTC 2017


BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1669153

Commit f209fa03fc9d ("serial: 8250_pci: Detach low-level driver during
PCI error recovery") introduces a potential use-after-free in case the
pciserial_init_ports call in serial8250_io_resume fails, which may
happen if a memory allocation fails or if the .init quirk failed for
whatever reason).  If this happen, further pci_get_drvdata will return a
pointer to freed memory.

This patch reworks the PCI recovery resume hook to restore the old priv
structure in this case, which should be ok, since the ports were already
detached. Such error during recovery causes us to give up on the
recovery.

Fixes: f209fa03fc9d ("serial: 8250_pci: Detach low-level driver during
  PCI error recovery")
Reported-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek at suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry-picked from commit c130b666a9a711f985a0a44b58699ebe14bb7245)
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

---
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 12 +++++-------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c
index aa0166b..116436b 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c
@@ -5642,17 +5642,15 @@ static pci_ers_result_t serial8250_io_slot_reset(struct pci_dev *dev)
 static void serial8250_io_resume(struct pci_dev *dev)
 {
 	struct serial_private *priv = pci_get_drvdata(dev);
-	const struct pciserial_board *board;
+	struct serial_private *new;
 
 	if (!priv)
 		return;
 
-	board = priv->board;
-	kfree(priv);
-	priv = pciserial_init_ports(dev, board);
-
-	if (!IS_ERR(priv)) {
-		pci_set_drvdata(dev, priv);
+	new = pciserial_init_ports(dev, priv->board);
+	if (!IS_ERR(new)) {
+		pci_set_drvdata(dev, new);
+		kfree(priv);
 	}
 }
 
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