From: "Jernej Škrabec" <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>
To: vkoul@kernel.org, Frank.Li@kernel.org, wens@kernel.org,
samuel@sholland.org, mripard@kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de,
Hongling Zeng <zenghongling@kylinos.cn>
Cc: dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
zhongling0719@126.com, Hongling Zeng <zenghongling@kylinos.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] dmaengine: sun6i-dma: Fix use-after-free in error handling paths
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:54:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <phINRqN0SQqjDvxjLw8DWg@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260616023138.15904-1-zenghongling@kylinos.cn>
Dne torek, 16. junij 2026 ob 04:31:38 Srednjeevropski poletni čas je Hongling Zeng napisal(a):
> In error handling paths, the for loop frees v_lli in the loop body,
> then accesses v_lli->v_lli_next and v_lli->p_lli_next in the
> increment expression, which is use-after-free.
>
> Fix by saving both the next virtual and physical pointers before
> freeing the current node.
>
> Fixes: 555859308723 ("dmaengine: Add driver for Allwinner sun6i DMA")
> Signed-off-by: Hongling Zeng <zenghongling@kylinos.cn>
> Suggested-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>
>
> ---
This looks great! Thank you for your patience.
Reviewed-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>
Best regards,
Jernej
> Changes in v2:
> -Refactored the fix to avoid code duplication by creating a helper function
> sun6i_dma_free_lli_list() that handles LLI list cleanup
> -Add Suggested-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>
>
> ---
> Change in v3:
> -Further refactoring to move txd handling into the helper function
> as suggested by Jernej
> ---
> drivers/dma/sun6i-dma.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++---------------
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/sun6i-dma.c b/drivers/dma/sun6i-dma.c
> index a9a254dbf8cb..7a79f346250a 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/sun6i-dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/sun6i-dma.c
> @@ -406,16 +406,12 @@ static inline void sun6i_dma_dump_lli(struct sun6i_vchan *vchan,
> v_lli->len, v_lli->para, v_lli->p_lli_next);
> }
>
> -static void sun6i_dma_free_desc(struct virt_dma_desc *vd)
> +static void sun6i_dma_free_desc(struct sun6i_dma_dev *sdev,
> + struct sun6i_desc *txd)
> {
> - struct sun6i_desc *txd = to_sun6i_desc(&vd->tx);
> - struct sun6i_dma_dev *sdev = to_sun6i_dma_dev(vd->tx.chan->device);
> struct sun6i_dma_lli *v_lli, *v_next;
> dma_addr_t p_lli, p_next;
>
> - if (unlikely(!txd))
> - return;
> -
> p_lli = txd->p_lli;
> v_lli = txd->v_lli;
>
> @@ -432,6 +428,17 @@ static void sun6i_dma_free_desc(struct virt_dma_desc *vd)
> kfree(txd);
> }
>
> +static void sun6i_dma_free_desc_virt(struct virt_dma_desc *vd)
> +{
> + struct sun6i_desc *txd = to_sun6i_desc(&vd->tx);
> + struct sun6i_dma_dev *sdev = to_sun6i_dma_dev(vd->tx.chan->device);
> +
> + if (unlikely(!txd))
> + return;
> +
> + sun6i_dma_free_desc(sdev, txd);
> +}
> +
> static int sun6i_dma_start_desc(struct sun6i_vchan *vchan)
> {
> struct sun6i_dma_dev *sdev = to_sun6i_dma_dev(vchan->vc.chan.device);
> @@ -788,10 +795,7 @@ static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *sun6i_dma_prep_slave_sg(
> return vchan_tx_prep(&vchan->vc, &txd->vd, flags);
>
> err_lli_free:
> - for (p_lli = txd->p_lli, v_lli = txd->v_lli; v_lli;
> - p_lli = v_lli->p_lli_next, v_lli = v_lli->v_lli_next)
> - dma_pool_free(sdev->pool, v_lli, p_lli);
> - kfree(txd);
> + sun6i_dma_free_desc(sdev, txd);
> return NULL;
> }
>
> @@ -869,10 +873,7 @@ static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *sun6i_dma_prep_dma_cyclic(
> return vchan_tx_prep(&vchan->vc, &txd->vd, flags);
>
> err_lli_free:
> - for (p_lli = txd->p_lli, v_lli = txd->v_lli; v_lli;
> - p_lli = v_lli->p_lli_next, v_lli = v_lli->v_lli_next)
> - dma_pool_free(sdev->pool, v_lli, p_lli);
> - kfree(txd);
> + sun6i_dma_free_desc(sdev, txd);
> return NULL;
> }
>
> @@ -1431,7 +1432,7 @@ static int sun6i_dma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> struct sun6i_vchan *vchan = &sdc->vchans[i];
>
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vchan->node);
> - vchan->vc.desc_free = sun6i_dma_free_desc;
> + vchan->vc.desc_free = sun6i_dma_free_desc_virt;
> vchan_init(&vchan->vc, &sdc->slave);
> }
>
>
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2026-06-16 2:31 [PATCH v3] dmaengine: sun6i-dma: Fix use-after-free in error handling paths Hongling Zeng
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