[PATCH 0/2] staging: rtl8712: fix error handling

From: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
To: Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, zhansayabagdaulet@gmail.com,
	straube.linux@gmail.com
Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] staging: rtl8712: fix error handling
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 22:34:20 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1626895918.git.paskripkin@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi, rtl8712 developers and stanging maintainers!

In this patch series I rewrote error handling approach in rtl8712 driver.
Detailed description can be found in commit messages. In short:

There was strage approach to handle fw load error. For some reason fw callback
was doing clean up stuff which can lead to UAF bug. For example:

CPU0                                        CPU1
r871xu_dev_remove()
                                          rtl871x_load_fw_cb()
                                          free_netdev(netdev)

wait_for_completion(netdev_priv->compl) <- UAF, slab-out-of-bound or smth else

I've added free_netdev() call in my previous patch to this driver:
e02a3b945816 ("staging: rtl8712: fix memory leak in rtl871x_load_fw_cb") to avoid
memory leak and I believed, that this approach won't trigger anything else, but,
unfortunately, I was wrong. Syzbot found 2 bugs [1] [2] and I decided to complely
rewrite error handling in case of fw load failure. This patch series was tested
with both reproducers and did't trigger any bugs.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=7646834b55c71c45ed85f601032daa6c23db0513
[2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=89c3ddb9936d3552995130298f1d2633ab9d3541

With regards,
Pavel Skripkin

Pavel Skripkin (2):
  staging: rtl8712: get rid of flush_scheduled_work
  staging: rtl8712: error handling refactoring

 drivers/staging/rtl8712/hal_init.c        | 30 ++++++++-----
 drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_led.c     |  8 ++++
 drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_led.h     |  1 +
 drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_pwrctrl.c |  8 ++++
 drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_pwrctrl.h |  1 +
 drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c        | 51 ++++++++++-------------
 6 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

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