Linux: memstick: core: wait for request completion before freeing card
What fixes it
- 810580cf60edc75c9891c2de3225e4cda78e4d9fLinuxCVE List
- 3af81770e2011c6ac7bb597a4af2e4f3591f928cLinuxCVE List
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
memstick: core: wait for request completion before freeing card
In memstick_alloc_card() and memstick_set_rw_addr(), wait_for_completion_timeout() is used to wait for device identification and address configuration requests to complete.
The memstick subsystem does not provide an abort or cancellation callback in struct memstick_host for in-flight requests. If wait_for_completion_timeout() expires (for instance, when a USB transfer or command retry is delayed), memstick_alloc_card() returns an error and frees the memstick_dev structure via kfree(card).
However, the host controller driver (such as rtsx_usb_ms) is still running the request asynchronously in worker context. When the transfer eventually finishes, the driver writes into host->req->data, which points to memory inside the already freed card structure. This leads to a KASAN slab-use-after-free write:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ms_read_bytes+0x8fe/0x990 Write of size 1 at addr ffff88813c188079 by task kworker/1:5/5239 Workqueue: events rtsx_usb_ms_handle_req Call Trace: ms_read_bytes+0x8fe/0x990 drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_usb_ms.c:450 rtsx_usb_ms_issue_cmd drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_usb_ms.c:477 [inline] rtsx_usb_ms_handle_req+0x557/0x1a00 drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_usb_ms.c:531 process_one_work+0xac7/0x1b10 kernel/workqueue.c:3396 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3560 kthread+0x373/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
Allocated by task 1662: memstick_alloc_card drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c:383 [inline] memstick_check+0x2c1/0x10d0 drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c:452 process_one_work+0xac7/0x1b10 kernel/workqueue.c:3396
Freed by task 1662: kfree+0x20c/0x650 mm/slub.c:6792 memstick_alloc_card drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c:420 [inline] memstick_check+0x72b/0x10d0 drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c:452 process_one_work+0xac7/0x1b10 kernel/workqueue.c:3396
Host controller drivers (rtsx_usb_ms, jmb38x_ms, tifm_ms, r592) already implement their own hardware and bus timeouts, and callers in mspro_block and ms_block already rely on wait_for_completion() unconditionally.
Replace wait_for_completion_timeout() with wait_for_completion() in memstick_set_rw_addr() and memstick_alloc_card() so that the card structure is never freed while an asynchronous request is in flight.
Text from CVE List
Affected versions 12
- Linuxaffected: baf8532a147d5b76681ce040e2c8f25a3f0e718d before c3ab92542475d59ae685cbb294e70ca4d0ba38e9CVE List
- Linuxaffected: baf8532a147d5b76681ce040e2c8f25a3f0e718d before 810580cf60edc75c9891c2de3225e4cda78e4d9fCVE List
- Linuxaffected: baf8532a147d5b76681ce040e2c8f25a3f0e718d before f2795c50144d528dabc2cf2fd53c0f0c63a823a1CVE List
- Linuxaffected: baf8532a147d5b76681ce040e2c8f25a3f0e718d before 3af81770e2011c6ac7bb597a4af2e4f3591f928cCVE List
- Linuxaffected: baf8532a147d5b76681ce040e2c8f25a3f0e718d before aa0a37b5024d921e96ac4f8f487c8bfbf1f1a582CVE List
- Linuxaffected: 2.6.25CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: all versions before 2.6.25CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 6.6.160 through 6.6.*CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 6.12.113 through 6.12.*CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 6.18.57 through 6.18.*CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 7.2.11 through 7.2.*CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 7.3CVE List
References 5
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3ab92542475d59ae685cbb294e70ca4d0ba38e9Referencevia CVE List
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/810580cf60edc75c9891c2de3225e4cda78e4d9fReferencevia CVE List
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2795c50144d528dabc2cf2fd53c0f0c63a823a1Referencevia CVE List
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3af81770e2011c6ac7bb597a4af2e4f3591f928cReferencevia CVE List
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa0a37b5024d921e96ac4f8f487c8bfbf1f1a582Referencevia CVE List