Re: [PATCH v2] rdma/siw: Fix a use after free in siw_alloc_mr

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 06:16:47PM -0700, Lv Yunlong wrote:
> Our code analyzer reported a uaf.
> 
> In siw_alloc_mr, it calls siw_mr_add_mem(mr,..). In the implementation
> of siw_mr_add_mem(), mem is assigned to mr->mem and then mem is freed
> via kfree(mem) if xa_alloc_cyclic() failed. Here, mr->mem still point
> to a freed object. After, the execution continue up to the err_out branch
> of siw_alloc_mr, and the freed mr->mem is used in siw_mr_drop_mem(mr).
> 
> My patch moves "mr->mem = mem" behind the if (xa_alloc_cyclic(..)<0) {}
> section, to avoid the uaf.
> 
> Fixes: 2251334dcac9e ("rdma/siw: application buffer management")
> Signed-off-by: Lv Yunlong <lyl2019@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
> Reviewed-by: Bernard Metzler <bmt@zurich.ihm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_mem.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied to for-next, thanks

Jason