xc2028: Fix use-after-free bug properly
authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Thu, 17 Nov 2016 09:49:31 +0000 (10:49 +0100)
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Wed, 23 Nov 2016 23:04:26 +0000 (21:04 -0200)
commit22a1e7783e173ab3d86018eb590107d68df46c11
tree3beaea52d877cfab058a52b97a2e2f4d6f170b4e
parent9c763584b7c8911106bb77af7e648bef09af9d80
xc2028: Fix use-after-free bug properly

The commit 8dfbcc4351a0 ("[media] xc2028: avoid use after free") tried
to address the reported use-after-free by clearing the reference.

However, it's clearing the wrong pointer; it sets NULL to
priv->ctrl.fname, but it's anyway overwritten by the next line
memcpy(&priv->ctrl, p, sizeof(priv->ctrl)).

OTOH, the actual code accessing the freed string is the strcmp() call
with priv->fname:
if (!firmware_name[0] && p->fname &&
    priv->fname && strcmp(p->fname, priv->fname))
free_firmware(priv);

where priv->fname points to the previous file name, and this was
already freed by kfree().

For fixing the bug properly, this patch does the following:

- Keep the copy of firmware file name in only priv->fname,
  priv->ctrl.fname isn't changed;
- The allocation is done only when the firmware gets loaded;
- The kfree() is called in free_firmware() commonly

Fixes: commit 8dfbcc4351a0 ('[media] xc2028: avoid use after free')
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
drivers/media/tuners/tuner-xc2028.c