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    xhci: fix null-pointer dereference when destroying half-built segment rings · 68e5254a
    Julius Werner authored
    xhci_alloc_segments_for_ring() builds a list of xhci_segments and links
    the tail to head at the end (forming a ring). When it bails out for OOM
    reasons half-way through, it tries to destroy its half-built list with
    xhci_free_segments_for_ring(), even though it is not a ring yet. This
    causes a null-pointer dereference upon hitting the last element.
    
    Furthermore, one of its callers (xhci_ring_alloc()) mistakenly believes
    the output parameters to be valid upon this kind of OOM failure, and
    calls xhci_ring_free() on them. Since the (incomplete) list/ring should
    already be destroyed in that case, this would lead to a use after free.
    
    This patch fixes those issues by having xhci_alloc_segments_for_ring()
    destroy its half-built, non-circular list manually and destroying the
    invalid struct xhci_ring in xhci_ring_alloc() with a plain kfree().
    
    This patch should be backported to kernels as old as 2.6.31, that
    contains the commit 0ebbab37 "USB: xhci:
    Ring allocation and initialization."
    
    A separate patch will need to be developed for kernels older than 3.4,
    since the ring allocation code was refactored in that kernel.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJulius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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