[PATCH] iwl4965: Fix a null pointer dereference in il_tx_queue_free and il_cmd_queue_free

[PATCH] iwl4965: Fix a null pointer dereference in il_tx_queue_free and il_cmd_queue_free

[Jia-Ju Bai]

If "txq->cmd = kzalloc(...)" in il_tx_queue_init fails, 
"kfree(txq->cmd[i])" in il_tx_queue_free and il_cmd_queue_free 
in iwl4965_hw_txq_ctx_free will causes a null pointer dereference,
because txq->cmd is NULL at that time.

This patch fixes this problem by adding a if-check before kfree.
To avoid double free in il_tx_queue_free and il_cmd_queue_free 
caused by the fixing, txq->cmd[i], txq->meta and txq->cmd in
error handling code of il_tx_queue_init are assigned null values.
Otherwise, a double free will occur.

This patch has been tested in real device, and it actually fixes the bug.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@163.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/common.c |   18 +++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/common.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/common.c
index 8871145..2656a15 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/common.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/common.c
@@ -2794,8 +2794,10 @@ il_tx_queue_free(struct il_priv *il, int txq_id)
 	il_tx_queue_unmap(il, txq_id);
 
 	/* De-alloc array of command/tx buffers */
-	for (i = 0; i < TFD_TX_CMD_SLOTS; i++)
-		kfree(txq->cmd[i]);
+	if (txq->cmd) {
+		for (i = 0; i < TFD_TX_CMD_SLOTS; i++)
+			kfree(txq->cmd[i]);
+	}
 
 	/* De-alloc circular buffer of TFDs */
 	if (txq->q.n_bd)
@@ -2873,8 +2875,10 @@ il_cmd_queue_free(struct il_priv *il)
 	il_cmd_queue_unmap(il);
 
 	/* De-alloc array of command/tx buffers */
-	for (i = 0; i <= TFD_CMD_SLOTS; i++)
-		kfree(txq->cmd[i]);
+	if (txq->cmd) {
+		for (i = 0; i <= TFD_CMD_SLOTS; i++)
+			kfree(txq->cmd[i]);
+	}
 
 	/* De-alloc circular buffer of TFDs */
 	if (txq->q.n_bd)
@@ -3076,11 +3080,15 @@ il_tx_queue_init(struct il_priv *il, u32 txq_id)
 
 	return 0;
 err:
-	for (i = 0; i < actual_slots; i++)
+	for (i = 0; i < actual_slots; i++) {
 		kfree(txq->cmd[i]);
+		txq->cmd[i] = NULL;
+	}
 out_free_arrays:
 	kfree(txq->meta);
+	txq->meta = NULL;
 	kfree(txq->cmd);
+	txq->cmd = NULL;
 
 	return -ENOMEM;
 }
-- 
1.7.9.5

Re: [PATCH] iwl4965: Fix a null pointer dereference in il_tx_queue_free and il_cmd_queue_free

[Stanislaw Gruszka]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 07:51:38PM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
>  err:
> -	for (i = 0; i < actual_slots; i++)
> +	for (i = 0; i < actual_slots; i++) {
>  		kfree(txq->cmd[i]);
> +		txq->cmd[i] = NULL;

I don't think we need this, otherwise patch looks good.

Stanislaw