The delayed work item 'ppa_tq' is initialized in __ppa_attach() and
scheduled via ppa_queuecommand() for processing SCSI commands. When
the parallel port SCSI host adapter is detached through ppa_detach(),
the ppa_struct device instance is deallocated.
However, the delayed work might still be pending or executing when
ppa_detach() is called, leading to use-after-free bugs when the
work function ppa_interrupt() accesses the already freed ppa_struct
memory.
The race condition can occur as follows:
CPU 0(detach thread) | CPU 1(delayed work)
| ppa_queuecommand()
| ppa_queuecommand_lck()
ppa_detach() | schedule_delayed_work()
kfree(dev) //FREE | ppa_interrupt()
| dev = container_of(...) //USE
dev-> //USE
Add disable_delayed_work_sync() in ppa_detach() to guarantee proper
cancellation of the delayed work item before ppa_struct is deallocated.
This bug was identified through static analysis.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
---
drivers/scsi/ppa.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ppa.c b/drivers/scsi/ppa.c
index ea682f3044b..8da2a78ebac 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/ppa.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/ppa.c
@@ -1136,6 +1136,7 @@ static void ppa_detach(struct parport *pb)
ppa_struct *dev;
list_for_each_entry(dev, &ppa_hosts, list) {
if (dev->dev->port == pb) {
+ disable_delayed_work_sync(&dev->ppa_tq);
list_del_init(&dev->list);
scsi_remove_host(dev->host);
scsi_host_put(dev->host);
--
2.34.1