From 29346e217b8ab8a52889b88f00b268278d6b7668 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Starke <daniel.starke@siemens.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 07:15:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "tty: n_gsm: fix UAF in gsm_cleanup_mux"
Git-commit: 29346e217b8ab8a52889b88f00b268278d6b7668
Patch-mainline: v6.6-rc4
References: git-fixes CVE-2023-52564 bsc#1220938
This reverts commit 9b9c8195f3f0d74a826077fc1c01b9ee74907239.
The commit above is reverted as it did not solve the original issue.
gsm_cleanup_mux() tries to free up the virtual ttys by calling
gsm_dlci_release() for each available DLCI. There, dlci_put() is called to
decrease the reference counter for the DLCI via tty_port_put() which
finally calls gsm_dlci_free(). This already clears the pointer which is
being checked in gsm_cleanup_mux() before calling gsm_dlci_release().
Therefore, it is not necessary to clear this pointer in gsm_cleanup_mux()
as done in the reverted commit. The commit introduces a null pointer
Dereference: <TASK> ? __die+0x1f/0x70 ? page_fault_oops+0x156/0x420 ? search_exception_tables+0x37/0x50 ? fixup_exception+0x21/0x310 ? exc_page_fault+0x69/0x150 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 ? tty_port_put+0x19/0xa0 gsmtty_cleanup+0x29/0x80 [n_gsm] release_one_tty+0x37/0xe0 process_one_work+0x1e6/0x3e0 worker_thread+0x4c/0x3d0 ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 kthread+0xe1/0x110 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x50 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30 </TASK>
The actual issue is that nothing guards dlci_put() from being called
multiple times while the tty driver was triggered but did not yet finished
calling gsm_dlci_free().
Fixes: 9b9c8195f3f0 ("tty: n_gsm: fix UAF in gsm_cleanup_mux")
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Starke <daniel.starke@siemens.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230914051507.3240-1-daniel.starke@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
---
drivers/tty/n_gsm.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/n_gsm.c b/drivers/tty/n_gsm.c
index b3550ff9c494..1f3aba607cd5 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/n_gsm.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/n_gsm.c
@@ -3097,10 +3097,8 @@ static void gsm_cleanup_mux(struct gsm_mux *gsm, bool disc)
gsm->has_devices = false;
}
for (i = NUM_DLCI - 1; i >= 0; i--)
- if (gsm->dlci[i]) {
+ if (gsm->dlci[i])
gsm_dlci_release(gsm->dlci[i]);
- gsm->dlci[i] = NULL;
- }
mutex_unlock(&gsm->mutex);
/* Now wipe the queues */
tty_ldisc_flush(gsm->tty);
--
2.35.3