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authorDominik Grzegorzek <dominik.grzegorzek@oracle.com>2025-05-18 19:45:31 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-05-29 11:03:19 +0200
commit5300e487487d7a2e3e1e6e9d8f03ed9452e4019e (patch)
tree3cb13518e91aa8cd64c0638d20ffb155daaf8283
parent2f45a8d64fb4ed4830a4b3273834ecd6ca504896 (diff)
padata: do not leak refcount in reorder_work
commit d6ebcde6d4ecf34f8495fb30516645db3aea8993 upstream. A recent patch that addressed a UAF introduced a reference count leak: the parallel_data refcount is incremented unconditionally, regardless of the return value of queue_work(). If the work item is already queued, the incremented refcount is never decremented. Fix this by checking the return value of queue_work() and decrementing the refcount when necessary. Resolves: Unreferenced object 0xffff9d9f421e3d80 (size 192): comm "cryptomgr_probe", pid 157, jiffies 4294694003 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 80 8b cf 41 9f 9d ff ff b8 97 e0 89 ff ff ff ff ...A............ d0 97 e0 89 ff ff ff ff 19 00 00 00 1f 88 23 00 ..............#. backtrace (crc 838fb36): __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x284/0x320 padata_alloc_pd+0x20/0x1e0 padata_alloc_shell+0x3b/0xa0 0xffffffffc040a54d cryptomgr_probe+0x43/0xc0 kthread+0xf6/0x1f0 ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x50 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 Fixes: dd7d37ccf6b1 ("padata: avoid UAF for reorder_work") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dominik Grzegorzek <dominik.grzegorzek@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/padata.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/padata.c b/kernel/padata.c
index 22770372bdf3..3e0ef0753e73 100644
--- a/kernel/padata.c
+++ b/kernel/padata.c
@@ -358,7 +358,8 @@ static void padata_reorder(struct parallel_data *pd)
* To avoid UAF issue, add pd ref here, and put pd ref after reorder_work finish.
*/
padata_get_pd(pd);
- queue_work(pinst->serial_wq, &pd->reorder_work);
+ if (!queue_work(pinst->serial_wq, &pd->reorder_work))
+ padata_put_pd(pd);
}
}