powerpc/pseries: Fix use after free in remove_phb_dynamic()
CVE: CVE-2022-49196
Component: kernel
CWE: CWE-125
Severity: Moderate
CVSS v3: 5.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Release date: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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

powerpc/pseries: Fix use after free in remove_phb_dynamic()

In remove_phb_dynamic() we use &phb->io_resource, after we've called
device_unregister(&host_bridge->dev). But the unregister may have freed
phb, because pcibios_free_controller_deferred() is the release function
for the host_bridge.

If there are no outstanding references when we call device_unregister()
then phb will be freed out from under us.

This has gone mainly unnoticed, but with slub_debug and page_poison
enabled it can lead to a crash:

  PID: 7574   TASK: c0000000d492cb80  CPU: 13  COMMAND: "drmgr"
   #0 [c0000000e4f075a0] crash_kexec at c00000000027d7dc
   #1 [c0000000e4f075d0] oops_end at c000000000029608
   #2 [c0000000e4f07650] __bad_page_fault at c0000000000904b4
   #3 [c0000000e4f076c0] do_bad_slb_fault at c00000000009a5a8
   #4 [c0000000e4f076f0] data_access_slb_common_virt at c000000000008b30
   Data SLB Access [380] exception frame:
   R0:  c000000000167250    R1:  c0000000e4f07a00    R2:  c000000002a46100
   R3:  c000000002b39ce8    R4:  00000000000000c0    R5:  00000000000000a9
   R6:  3894674d000000c0    R7:  0000000000000000    R8:  00000000000000ff
   R9:  0000000000000100    R10: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b    R11: 0000000000008000
   R12: c00000000023da80    R13: c0000009ffd38b00    R14: 0000000000000000
   R15: 000000011c87f0f0    R16: 0000000000000006    R17: 0000000000000003
   R18: 0000000000000002    R19: 0000000000000004    R20: 0000000000000005
   R21: 000000011c87ede8    R22: 000000011c87c5a8    R23: 000000011c87d3a0
   R24: 0000000000000000    R25: 0000000000000001    R26: c0000000e4f07cc8
   R27: c00000004d1cc400    R28: c0080000031d00e8    R29: c00000004d23d800
   R30: c00000004d1d2400    R31: c00000004d1d2540
   NIP: c000000000167258    MSR: 8000000000009033    OR3: c000000000e9f474
   CTR: 0000000000000000    LR:  c000000000167250    XER: 0000000020040003
   CCR: 0000000024088420    MQ:  0000000000000000    DAR: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6ba3
   DSISR: c0000000e4f07920     Syscall Result: fffffffffffffff2
   [NIP  : release_resource+56]
   [LR   : release_resource+48]
   #5 [c0000000e4f07a00] release_resource at c000000000167258  (unreliable)
   #6 [c0000000e4f07a30] remove_phb_dynamic at c000000000105648
   #7 [c0000000e4f07ab0] dlpar_remove_slot at c0080000031a09e8 [rpadlpar_io]
   #8 [c0000000e4f07b50] remove_slot_store at c0080000031a0b9c [rpadlpar_io]
   #9 [c0000000e4f07be0] kobj_attr_store at c000000000817d8c
  #10 [c0000000e4f07c00] sysfs_kf_write at c00000000063e504
  #11 [c0000000e4f07c20] kernfs_fop_write_iter at c00000000063d868
  #12 [c0000000e4f07c70] new_sync_write at c00000000054339c
  #13 [c0000000e4f07d10] vfs_write at c000000000546624
  #14 [c0000000e4f07d60] ksys_write at c0000000005469f4
  #15 [c0000000e4f07db0] system_call_exception at c000000000030840
  #16 [c0000000e4f07e10] system_call_vectored_common at c00000000000c168

To avoid it, we can take a reference to the host_bridge->dev until we're
done using phb. Then when we drop the reference the phb will be freed.

Statement: Bug actual only for Powerpc hardware platform. The security impact is limited, because could happen only during shutdown or disconnection of device (after device_unregister function call). Only privileged user can trigger it. For the default configuration bug doesn't lead to kernel crash, but with debugging enabled it could be.

Remediation: