CVE-2019-12819: Use After Free (CWE-416)
value: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0. The function __mdiobus_register() in drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c calls put_device(), which will trigger a fixed_mdio_bus_init use-after-free. This will cause a denial of service.
CWE description: The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
CVSS v3 base score: 5.5
Published: 2019-06-14T02:29Z
Repository: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Language: C
Files changed: drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
Commit date: 2019-02-22 15:34:07 -0800
Commit message: mdio_bus: Fix use-after-free on device_register fails

KASAN has found use-after-free in fixed_mdio_bus_init,
commit 0c692d07842a ("drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c: call
put_device on device_register() failure") call put_device()
while device_register() fails,give up the last reference
to the device and allow mdiobus_release to be executed
,kfreeing the bus. However in most drives, mdiobus_free
be called to free the bus while mdiobus_register fails.
use-after-free occurs when access bus again, this patch
revert it to let mdiobus_free free the bus.

KASAN report details as below:

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in mdiobus_free+0x85/0x90 drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:482
Read of size 4 at addr ffff8881dc824d78 by task syz-executor.0/3524

CPU: 1 PID: 3524 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 5.0.0-rc7+ #45
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
 dump_stack+0xfa/0x1ce lib/dump_stack.c:113
 print_address_description+0x65/0x270 mm/kasan/report.c:187
 kasan_report+0x149/0x18d mm/kasan/report.c:317
 mdiobus_free+0x85/0x90 drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:482
 fixed_mdio_bus_init+0x283/0x1000 [fixed_phy]
 ? 0xffffffffc0e40000
 ? 0xffffffffc0e40000
 ? 0xffffffffc0e40000
 do_one_initcall+0xfa/0x5ca init/main.c:887
 do_init_module+0x204/0x5f6 kernel/module.c:3460
 load_module+0x66b2/0x8570 kernel/module.c:3808
 __do_sys_finit_module+0x238/0x2a0 kernel/module.c:3902
 do_syscall_64+0x147/0x600 arch/x86/entry/common.c:290
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
RIP: 0033:0x462e99
Code: f7 d8 64 89 02 b8 ff ff ff ff c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 bc ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f6215c19c58 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000139
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000073bf00 RCX: 0000000000462e99
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000020000080 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f6215c19c70 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f6215c1a6bc
R13: 00000000004bcefb R14: 00000000006f7030 R15: 0000000000000004

Allocated by task 3524:
 set_track mm/kasan/common.c:85 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc.constprop.3+0xa0/0xd0 mm/kasan/common.c:496
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:545 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:740 [inline]
 mdiobus_alloc_size+0x54/0x1b0 drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:143
 fixed_mdio_bus_init+0x163/0x1000 [fixed_phy]
 do_one_initcall+0xfa/0x5ca init/main.c:887
 do_init_module+0x204/0x5f6 kernel/module.c:3460
 load_module+0x66b2/0x8570 kernel/module.c:3808
 __do_sys_finit_module+0x238/0x2a0 kernel/module.c:3902
 do_syscall_64+0x147/0x600 arch/x86/entry/common.c:290
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

Freed by task 3524:
 set_track mm/kasan/common.c:85 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x130/0x180 mm/kasan/common.c:458
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1409 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook mm/slub.c:1436 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:2986 [inline]
 kfree+0xe1/0x270 mm/slub.c:3938
 device_release+0x78/0x200 drivers/base/core.c:919
 kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:662 [inline]
 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:691 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:67 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x146/0x240 lib/kobject.c:708
 put_device+0x1c/0x30 drivers/base/core.c:2060
 __mdiobus_register+0x483/0x560 drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:382
 fixed_mdio_bus_init+0x26b/0x1000 [fixed_phy]
 do_one_initcall+0xfa/0x5ca init/main.c:887
 do_init_module+0x204/0x5f6 kernel/module.c:3460
 load_module+0x66b2/0x8570 kernel/module.c:3808
 __do_sys_finit_module+0x238/0x2a0 kernel/module.c:3902
 do_syscall_64+0x147/0x600 arch/x86/entry/common.c:290
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881dc824c80
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 248 bytes inside of
 2048-byte region [ffff8881dc824c80, ffff8881dc825480)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0007720800 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff8881f6c02800 index:0x0 compound_mapcount: 0
flags: 0x2fffc0000010200(slab|head)
raw: 02fffc0000010200 0000000000000000 0000000500000001 ffff8881f6c02800
raw: 0000000000000000 00000000800f000f 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff8881dc824c00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff8881dc824c80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff8881dc824d00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                                ^
 ffff8881dc824d80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff8881dc824e00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb

Fixes: 0c692d07842a ("drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c: call put_device on device_register() failure")
Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Diff: diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
index 66b9cfe692fc..7368616286ae 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
@@ -377,11 +377,10 @@ int __mdiobus_register(struct mii_bus *bus, struct module *owner)
 	dev_set_name(&bus->dev, "%s", bus->id);
 
 	err = device_register(&bus->dev);
 	if (err) {
 		pr_err("mii_bus %s failed to register\n", bus->id);
-		put_device(&bus->dev);
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	mutex_init(&bus->mdio_lock);
 

Vulnerable code: 		put_device(&bus->dev);