[PATCH 4.9 24/51] ALSA: usb-audio: Fix UAF decrement if card has no live interfaces in card.c

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-12-11T16:13:19Z

From: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>

commit 5f8cf712582617d523120df67d392059eaf2fc4b upstream.

If a USB sound card reports 0 interfaces, an error condition is triggered
and the function usb_audio_probe errors out. In the error path, there was a
use-after-free vulnerability where the memory object of the card was first
freed, followed by a decrement of the number of active chips. Moving the
decrement above the atomic_dec fixes the UAF.

[ The original problem was introduced in 3.1 kernel, while it was
developed in a different form. The Fixes tag below indicates the
original commit but it doesn't mean that the patch is applicable
cleanly. -- tiwai ]

Fixes: 362e4e49abe5 ("ALSA: usb-audio - clear chip->probing on error exit")
Reported-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Mathias Payer <mathias.payer@nebelwelt.net>
Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Payer <mathias.payer@nebelwelt.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
sound/usb/card.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/sound/usb/card.c
+++ b/sound/usb/card.c
@@ -644,9 +644,12 @@ static int usb_audio_probe(struct usb_in

__error:
if (chip) {
+ /* chip->active is inside the chip->card object,
+ * decrement before memory is possibly returned.
+ */
+ atomic_dec(&chip->active);
if (!chip->num_interfaces)
snd_card_free(chip->card);
- atomic_dec(&chip->active);
}
mutex_unlock(&register_mutex);
return err;