Add the error path for registering tty devices and roll back in case of error
in bid to avoid the UAF like the below one reported.
Plus syzbot reported general protection fault in cdev_del() on Sep 24, 2020
and both cases are down to the kobject_put() in tty_cdev_add().
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refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 8923 at lib/refcount.c:28
refcount_warn_saturate+0x1cf/0x210 -origin/lib/refcount.c:28
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 8923 Comm: executor Not tainted 5.12.0-rc5+ #8
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x1cf/0x210 -origin/lib/refcount.c:28
Code: 4f ff ff ff e8 32 fa b5 fe 48 c7 c7 3d f8 f6 86 e8 d6 ab c6 fe
c6 05 7c 34 67 04 01 48 c7 c7 68 f8 6d 86 31 c0 e8 81 2e 9d fe <0f> 0b
e9 22 ff ff ff e8 05 fa b5 fe 48 c7 c7 3e f8 f6 86 e8 a9 ab
RSP: 0018:
ffffc90001633c60 EFLAGS:
00010246
RAX:
15d08b2e34b77800 RBX:
0000000000000003 RCX:
ffff88804c056c80
RDX:
0000000000000000 RSI:
0000000000000000 RDI:
0000000000000000
RBP:
0000000000000003 R08:
ffffffff813767aa R09:
0001ffffffffffff
R10:
0001ffffffffffff R11:
ffff88804c056c80 R12:
ffff888040b7d000
R13:
ffff88804c206938 R14:
ffff88804c206900 R15:
ffff888041b18488
FS:
00000000022c9940(0000) GS:
ffff88807ec00000(0000) knlGS:
0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0:
0000000080050033
CR2:
00007f9f9b122008 CR3:
0000000044b4b000 CR4:
0000000000750ee0
PKRU:
55555554
Call Trace:
__refcount_sub_and_test -origin/./include/linux/refcount.h:283 [inline]
__refcount_dec_and_test -origin/./include/linux/refcount.h:315 [inline]
refcount_dec_and_test -origin/./include/linux/refcount.h:333 [inline]
kref_put -origin/./include/linux/kref.h:64 [inline]
kobject_put+0x17b/0x180 -origin/lib/kobject.c:753
cdev_del+0x4b/0x50 -origin/fs/char_dev.c:597
tty_unregister_device+0x99/0xd0 -origin/drivers/tty/tty_io.c:3343
gsmld_detach_gsm -origin/drivers/tty/n_gsm.c:2409 [inline]
gsmld_close+0x6c/0x140 -origin/drivers/tty/n_gsm.c:2478
tty_ldisc_close -origin/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:488 [inline]
tty_ldisc_kill -origin/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:636 [inline]
tty_ldisc_release+0x1b6/0x400 -origin/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:809
tty_release_struct+0x19/0xb0 -origin/drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1714
tty_release+0x9ad/0xa00 -origin/drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1885
__fput+0x260/0x4e0 -origin/fs/file_table.c:280
____fput+0x11/0x20 -origin/fs/file_table.c:313
task_work_run+0x8e/0x110 -origin/kernel/task_work.c:140
tracehook_notify_resume -origin/./include/linux/tracehook.h:189 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_loop -origin/kernel/entry/common.c:174 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x16b/0x1a0 -origin/kernel/entry/common.c:208
__syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work -origin/kernel/entry/common.c:290 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x20/0x40 -origin/kernel/entry/common.c:301
do_syscall_64+0x45/0x80 -origin/arch/x86/entry/common.c:56
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
Reported-by: syzbot+c49fe6089f295a05e6f8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-and-tested-by: Hao Sun <sunhao.th@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210412035758.1974-1-hdanton@sina.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>