[PATCH 5.15 238/731] media: dvb-core: Fix ignored return value in dvb_register_frontend()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-12-28T14:58:37Z

From: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@huawei.com>

[ Upstream commit a574359e2e71ce16be212df3a082ed60a4bd2c5f ]

In dvb_register_frontend(), dvb_register_device() is possible to fail
but its return value is ignored.

It will cause use-after-free when module is removed, because in
dvb_unregister_frontend() it tries to unregister a not registered
device.

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in dvb_remove_device+0x18b/0x1f0 [dvb_core]
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88800dff4824 by task rmmod/428
CPU: 3 PID: 428 Comm: rmmod
Call Trace:
<TASK>
...
dvb_remove_device+0x18b/0x1f0 [dvb_core]
dvb_unregister_frontend+0x7b/0x130 [dvb_core]
vidtv_bridge_remove+0x6e/0x160 [dvb_vidtv_bridge]
...

Fix this by catching return value of dvb_register_device().
However the fe->refcount can't be put to zero immediately, because
there are still modules calling dvb_frontend_detach() when
dvb_register_frontend() fails.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20221108033005.169095-1-chenzhongjin@huawei.com
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c
index 258637d762d6..70d07cdcb2a6 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c
@@ -2985,6 +2985,7 @@ int dvb_register_frontend(struct dvb_adapter *dvb,
.name = fe->ops.info.name,
#endif
};
+ int ret;

dev_dbg(dvb->device, "%s:\n", __func__);

@@ -3018,8 +3019,13 @@ int dvb_register_frontend(struct dvb_adapter *dvb,
"DVB: registering adapter %i frontend %i (%s)...\n",
fe->dvb->num, fe->id, fe->ops.info.name);

- dvb_register_device(fe->dvb, &fepriv->dvbdev, &dvbdev_template,
+ ret = dvb_register_device(fe->dvb, &fepriv->dvbdev, &dvbdev_template,
fe, DVB_DEVICE_FRONTEND, 0);
+ if (ret) {
+ dvb_frontend_put(fe);
+ mutex_unlock(&frontend_mutex);
+ return ret;
+ }

/*
* Initialize the cache to the proper values according with the
--
2.35.1