On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 02:48:24PM +0000, Schmid, Carsten wrote:
>When a resource is freed and has children, the childrens are

s/childrens/children/

>left without any hint that their parent is no more valid.
>This caused at least one use-after-free in the xhci-hcd using
>ext-caps driver when platform code released platform devices.
>
>In such case, warn and release all resources beyond.
>
>Signed-off-by: Carsten Schmid <[email protected]>
>---
>v2:
>- release everything below the released resource, not only
>  one child; re-using __release_child_resources
>  (Inspired by Linus Torvalds outline)
>- warn only once
>  (According to Linus Torvalds outline)
>- Keep parent and child name in warning message
>  (eases hunting for the involved parties)
>---
> kernel/resource.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/kernel/resource.c b/kernel/resource.c
>index c3cc6d85ec52..eb48d793aa74 100644
>--- a/kernel/resource.c
>+++ b/kernel/resource.c
>@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ static int __release_resource(struct resource *old, bool 
>release_child)
>       return -EINVAL;
> }
> 
>-static void __release_child_resources(struct resource *r)
>+static void __release_child_resources(struct resource *r, bool warn)
> {
>       struct resource *tmp, *p;
>       resource_size_t size;
>@@ -252,9 +252,10 @@ static void __release_child_resources(struct resource *r)
> 
>               tmp->parent = NULL;
>               tmp->sibling = NULL;
>-              __release_child_resources(tmp);
>+              __release_child_resources(tmp, warn);

This function will release all the children.

Is this what Linus suggest?

>From his code snippet, I just see siblings parent is set to NULL. I may miss
some point?

> 
>-              printk(KERN_DEBUG "release child resource %pR\n", tmp);
>+              if (warn)
>+                      printk(KERN_DEBUG "release child resource %pR\n", tmp);
>               /* need to restore size, and keep flags */
>               size = resource_size(tmp);
>               tmp->start = 0;
>@@ -265,7 +266,7 @@ static void __release_child_resources(struct resource *r)
> void release_child_resources(struct resource *r)
> {
>       write_lock(&resource_lock);
>-      __release_child_resources(r);
>+      __release_child_resources(r, true);
>       write_unlock(&resource_lock);
> }
> 
>@@ -1172,7 +1173,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__request_region);
>  * @n: resource region size
>  *
>  * The described resource region must match a currently busy region.
>+ * If the region has children they are released too.
>  */
>+static void check_children(struct resource *parent)
>+{
>+      if (parent->child) {
>+              /* warn and release all children */
>+              WARN_ONCE(1, "%s: %s has child %s, release all children\n",
>+                              __func__, parent->name, parent->child->name);
>+              write_lock(&resource_lock);

In previous version, lock is grasped before parent->child is checked.

Not sure why you change the order?

>+              __release_child_resources(parent, false);
>+              write_unlock(&resource_lock);
>+      }
>+}
>+
> void __release_region(struct resource *parent, resource_size_t start,
>                     resource_size_t n)
> {
>@@ -1200,6 +1214,10 @@ void __release_region(struct resource *parent, 
>resource_size_t start,
>                       write_unlock(&resource_lock);
>                       if (res->flags & IORESOURCE_MUXED)
>                               wake_up(&muxed_resource_wait);
>+
>+                      /* You should'nt release a resource that has children */
>+                      check_children(res);
>+
>                       free_resource(res);
>                       return;
>               }
>-- 
>2.17.1
>

-- 
Wei Yang
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