CVE-2021-47479

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

staging: rtl8712: fix use-after-free in rtl8712_dl_fw

Syzbot reported use-after-free in rtl8712_dl_fw(). The problem was in race condition between r871xu_dev_remove() ->ndo_open() callback.

Its easy to see from crash log, that driver accesses released firmware in ->ndo_open() callback. It may happen, since driver was releasing firmware before unregistering netdev. Fix it by moving unregister_netdev() before cleaning up resources.

Call Trace: … rtl871x_open_fw drivers/staging/rtl8712/hal_init.c:83 [inline] rtl8712_dl_fw+0xd95/0xe10 drivers/staging/rtl8712/hal_init.c:170 rtl8712_hal_init drivers/staging/rtl8712/hal_init.c:330 [inline] rtl871x_hal_init+0xae/0x180 drivers/staging/rtl8712/hal_init.c:394 netdev_open+0xe6/0x6c0 drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c:380 __dev_open+0x2bc/0x4d0 net/core/dev.c:1484

Freed by task 1306: … release_firmware+0x1b/0x30 drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:1053 r871xu_dev_remove+0xcc/0x2c0 drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c:599 usb_unbind_interface+0x1d8/0x8d0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:458

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a65c9afe9f2f55b7a7fb4a25ab654cd4139683a4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/befd23bd3b17f1a3f9c943a8580b47444c7c63ed
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c052cc1a069c3e575619cf64ec427eb41176ca70
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c430094541a80575259a94ff879063ef01473506