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Revert "tty: n_gsm: fix UAF in gsm_cleanup_mux"
authorDaniel Starke <daniel.starke@siemens.com>
Thu, 14 Sep 2023 05:15:07 +0000 (07:15 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 6 Oct 2023 12:57:00 +0000 (14:57 +0200)
commitc61d0b87a7028c2c10faffc524d748334c7b9827
tree0547499602bc3fa03620e2a754b58da1eed9f5c5
parent37435ddfadc6ece211415970af44866e2f695ee2
Revert "tty: n_gsm: fix UAF in gsm_cleanup_mux"

commit 29346e217b8ab8a52889b88f00b268278d6b7668 upstream.

This reverts commit 9b9c8195f3f0d74a826077fc1c01b9ee74907239.

The commit above is reverted as it did not solve the original issue.

gsm_cleanup_mux() tries to free up the virtual ttys by calling
gsm_dlci_release() for each available DLCI. There, dlci_put() is called to
decrease the reference counter for the DLCI via tty_port_put() which
finally calls gsm_dlci_free(). This already clears the pointer which is
being checked in gsm_cleanup_mux() before calling gsm_dlci_release().
Therefore, it is not necessary to clear this pointer in gsm_cleanup_mux()
as done in the reverted commit. The commit introduces a null pointer
dereference:
 <TASK>
 ? __die+0x1f/0x70
 ? page_fault_oops+0x156/0x420
 ? search_exception_tables+0x37/0x50
 ? fixup_exception+0x21/0x310
 ? exc_page_fault+0x69/0x150
 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
 ? tty_port_put+0x19/0xa0
 gsmtty_cleanup+0x29/0x80 [n_gsm]
 release_one_tty+0x37/0xe0
 process_one_work+0x1e6/0x3e0
 worker_thread+0x4c/0x3d0
 ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
 kthread+0xe1/0x110
 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
 ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x50
 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
 </TASK>

The actual issue is that nothing guards dlci_put() from being called
multiple times while the tty driver was triggered but did not yet finished
calling gsm_dlci_free().

Fixes: 9b9c8195f3f0 ("tty: n_gsm: fix UAF in gsm_cleanup_mux")
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Starke <daniel.starke@siemens.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230914051507.3240-1-daniel.starke@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/n_gsm.c