staging/android/ion : fix a race condition in the ion driver
authorEunTaik Lee <eun.taik.lee@samsung.com>
Wed, 24 Feb 2016 04:38:06 +0000 (04:38 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 30 Apr 2017 03:49:29 +0000 (05:49 +0200)
commita7544fdd1626b65db635022c9d36007bb32dd6d8
tree8ee2243a16b7f2cc31c1d0603f48b312ccb0ccaf
parentd23ef85b123d3dbd3ba8a3c5f0ef5e556feb635e
staging/android/ion : fix a race condition in the ion driver

commit 9590232bb4f4cc824f3425a6e1349afbe6d6d2b7 upstream.

There is a use-after-free problem in the ion driver.
This is caused by a race condition in the ion_ioctl()
function.

A handle has ref count of 1 and two tasks on different
cpus calls ION_IOC_FREE simultaneously.

cpu 0                                   cpu 1
-------------------------------------------------------
ion_handle_get_by_id()
(ref == 2)
                            ion_handle_get_by_id()
                            (ref == 3)

ion_free()
(ref == 2)

ion_handle_put()
(ref == 1)

                            ion_free()
                            (ref == 0 so ion_handle_destroy() is
                            called
                            and the handle is freed.)

                            ion_handle_put() is called and it
                            decreases the slub's next free pointer

The problem is detected as an unaligned access in the
spin lock functions since it uses load exclusive
 instruction. In some cases it corrupts the slub's
free pointer which causes a mis-aligned access to the
next free pointer.(kmalloc returns a pointer like
ffffc0745b4580aa). And it causes lots of other
hard-to-debug problems.

This symptom is caused since the first member in the
ion_handle structure is the reference count and the
ion driver decrements the reference after it has been
freed.

To fix this problem client->lock mutex is extended
to protect all the codes that uses the handle.

Signed-off-by: Eun Taik Lee <eun.taik.lee@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
index 7ff2a7ec871f..33b390e7ea31
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c