Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] scsi: elx: efct: free the RQ buffers already allocated when one fails

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Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 5 potential issue(s) to consider:

Pre-existing issues:
- [High] Extensive memory and DMA buffer leaks on device probe and initialization error paths.
- [High] Double-free and use-after-free vulnerability on the error path of efct_hw_new_rq_set().
- [High] Unsafe teardown of stats_timer leading to Use-After-Free and timer wheel corruption.
- [High] Invalid use of `timer_setup()` within the timer callback.
- [High] Error path in efct_hw_setup_io() leaks successfully allocated hw->io[i] inner objects.
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--- Patch [4]: [PATCH v2 4/5] scsi: elx: efct: free the RQ buffers already allocated when one fails ---
commit be8b053b462b939279de3cc82f2caf1d37ac0767
Author: Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@iusegentoo.com>

scsi: elx: efct: free the RQ buffers already allocated when one fails

efct_hw_rx_buffer_alloc() allocates an array of descriptors and then a
coherent DMA buffer for each entry. When one of those allocations fails it
frees the array and returns NULL, leaving every buffer allocated before it
mapped. This commit uses efct_hw_rx_buffer_free() for the entries that
were filled in to fix the leak.

> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/elx/efct/efct_hw.c b/drivers/scsi/elx/efct/efct_hw.c
> index db68516e80750..d645ce256b8aa 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/elx/efct/efct_hw.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/elx/efct/efct_hw.c
> @@ -1170,6 +1170,10 @@ efct_get_wwpn(struct efct_hw *hw)
>  	return get_unaligned_be64(p);
>  }
>  
> +static void
> +efct_hw_rx_buffer_free(struct efct_hw *hw, struct efc_hw_rq_buffer *rq_buf,
> +		       u32 count);
> +
>  static struct efc_hw_rq_buffer *
>  efct_hw_rx_buffer_alloc(struct efct_hw *hw, u32 rqindex, u32 count,
>  			u32 size)
> @@ -1196,7 +1200,7 @@ efct_hw_rx_buffer_alloc(struct efct_hw *hw, u32 rqindex, u32 count,
>  						   GFP_KERNEL);
>  		if (!prq->dma.virt) {
>  			efc_log_err(hw->os, "DMA allocation failed\n");
> -			kfree(rq_buf);
> +			efct_hw_rx_buffer_free(hw, rq_buf, i);
>  			return NULL;
>  		}
>  	}

[Severity: High]
This is a pre-existing issue, but does this error path still leak memory?

In efct_hw_rx_allocate():

	if (!rq->hdr_buf) {
		efc_log_err(efct, "rx_buffer_alloc hdr_buf failed\n");
		rc = -EIO;
		break;
	}

If efct_hw_rx_buffer_alloc() fails for any queue index, it breaks the loop
and returns -EIO, but it appears to leak all hdr_buf and payload_buf DMA
buffer arrays that were successfully allocated in previous iterations.

Furthermore, in efct_hw_init():

	rc = efct_hw_rx_allocate(hw);
	if (rc) {
		efc_log_err(hw->os, "rx_allocate failed\n");
		return rc;
	}

It returns early on nested allocation failures without cleaning up its own
previous local allocations.

Finally, in efct_xport_initialize():

	rc = efct_hw_init(&efct->hw);
	if (rc) {
		efc_log_err(efct, "efct_hw_init failure\n");
		goto out;
	}

It jumps directly to out: on efct_hw_init() failure, skipping the hw_init_out:
label where efct_hw_teardown() is called. This seems to leak hardware
resources initialized during efct_hw_setup() and efct_hw_init() when the probe
fails.


[Severity: High]
This is a pre-existing issue, but can this error path lead to a double-free?

In efct_hw_new_rq_set():

	list_add_tail(&rqs[i]->list_entry, &cqs[i]->q_list);
	size = sizeof(struct efc_hw_sequence *) * rqs[i]->entry_count;
	rqs[i]->rq_tracker = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!rqs[i]->rq_tracker)
		goto error;

If kzalloc() fails, it jumps to the error label:

error:
	for (i = 0; i < num_rq_pairs; i++) {
		if (rqs[i]) {
			kfree(rqs[i]->rq_tracker);
			kfree(rqs[i]);
		}
	}

This frees rqs[i] but does not remove it from the cqs[i]->q_list. The function
then returns -EIO, triggering efct_hw_queue_teardown(hw), which calls
efct_hw_del_rq():

	list_del(&rq->list_entry);
	hw = rq->cq->eq->hw;
	hw->hw_rq[rq->instance] = NULL;
	kfree(rq);

The teardown iterates over the list, dereferences the already freed rq object,
calls list_del() on it, and then calls kfree(rq) again. Does this double-free
the object and corrupt the list?


[Severity: High]
This is a pre-existing issue, but is the teardown of stats_timer safe here?

In efct_xport_detach():

	if (timer_pending(&xport->stats_timer))
		timer_delete(&xport->stats_timer);

If the timer callback efct_xport_stats_timer_cb() is actively running on
another CPU, timer_pending() might return false. Even if timer_delete()
is called, it does not wait for the concurrent callback to finish.

This could allow efct_xport_detach() to proceed and eventually free the xport
object while the timer callback is still executing. The callback would then
access the freed xport memory and call mod_timer(), inserting a freed timer
structure back into the kernel's active timer wheel. Should this
unconditionally use timer_delete_sync() without the timer_pending() check?


[Severity: High]
This is a pre-existing issue, but is it correct to call timer_setup() here?

In efct_xport_config_stats_timer():

	timer_setup(&xport->stats_timer,
		    &efct_xport_stats_timer_cb, 0);
	mod_timer(&xport->stats_timer,
		  jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(timeout));

This function is called both for initial setup and from within the timer
callback itself (efct_xport_stats_timer_cb()) to re-arm the timer.

Calling timer_setup() on a timer that is actively being processed by the timer
subsystem resets the structure, clearing list pointers and lock-related fields.
Does this destroy the active timer structure and lead to kernel state
corruption?


[Severity: High]
This is a pre-existing issue, but does this error path leak the inner IO
objects?

In efct_hw_setup_io():

	hw->wqe_buffs = kzalloc((hw->config.n_io * hw->sli.wqe_size),
				GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!hw->wqe_buffs) {
		kfree(hw->io);
		return -ENOMEM;
	}

If the allocation for hw->wqe_buffs fails, the code frees the outer hw->io
array and returns -ENOMEM. However, it appears to completely skip the loop in
the error block that frees the individual hw->io[i] objects allocated prior to
this, which would permanently leak them.

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