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Duoming Zhou ff27e23b31 octeontx2-pf: Fix use-after-free bugs in otx2_sync_tstamp()
[ Upstream commit f8b4687151021db61841af983f1cb7be6915d4ef ]

The original code relies on cancel_delayed_work() in otx2_ptp_destroy(),
which does not ensure that the delayed work item synctstamp_work has fully
completed if it was already running. This leads to use-after-free scenarios
where otx2_ptp is deallocated by otx2_ptp_destroy(), while synctstamp_work
remains active and attempts to dereference otx2_ptp in otx2_sync_tstamp().
Furthermore, the synctstamp_work is cyclic, the likelihood of triggering
the bug is nonnegligible.

A typical race condition is illustrated below:

CPU 0 (cleanup)           | CPU 1 (delayed work callback)
otx2_remove()             |
  otx2_ptp_destroy()      | otx2_sync_tstamp()
    cancel_delayed_work() |
    kfree(ptp)            |
                          |   ptp = container_of(...); //UAF
                          |   ptp-> //UAF

This is confirmed by a KASAN report:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __run_timer_base.part.0+0x7d7/0x8c0
Write of size 8 at addr ffff88800aa09a18 by task bash/136
...
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x55/0x70
 print_report+0xcf/0x610
 ? __run_timer_base.part.0+0x7d7/0x8c0
 kasan_report+0xb8/0xf0
 ? __run_timer_base.part.0+0x7d7/0x8c0
 __run_timer_base.part.0+0x7d7/0x8c0
 ? __pfx___run_timer_base.part.0+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx_read_tsc+0x10/0x10
 ? ktime_get+0x60/0x140
 ? lapic_next_event+0x11/0x20
 ? clockevents_program_event+0x1d4/0x2a0
 run_timer_softirq+0xd1/0x190
 handle_softirqs+0x16a/0x550
 irq_exit_rcu+0xaf/0xe0
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x70/0x80
 </IRQ>
...
Allocated by task 1:
 kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x7f/0x90
 otx2_ptp_init+0xb1/0x860
 otx2_probe+0x4eb/0xc30
 local_pci_probe+0xdc/0x190
 pci_device_probe+0x2fe/0x470
 really_probe+0x1ca/0x5c0
 __driver_probe_device+0x248/0x310
 driver_probe_device+0x44/0x120
 __driver_attach+0xd2/0x310
 bus_for_each_dev+0xed/0x170
 bus_add_driver+0x208/0x500
 driver_register+0x132/0x460
 do_one_initcall+0x89/0x300
 kernel_init_freeable+0x40d/0x720
 kernel_init+0x1a/0x150
 ret_from_fork+0x10c/0x1a0
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

Freed by task 136:
 kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
 kasan_save_free_info+0x3a/0x60
 __kasan_slab_free+0x3f/0x50
 kfree+0x137/0x370
 otx2_ptp_destroy+0x38/0x80
 otx2_remove+0x10d/0x4c0
 pci_device_remove+0xa6/0x1d0
 device_release_driver_internal+0xf8/0x210
 pci_stop_bus_device+0x105/0x150
 pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device_locked+0x15/0x30
 remove_store+0xcc/0xe0
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x2c3/0x440
 vfs_write+0x871/0xd70
 ksys_write+0xee/0x1c0
 do_syscall_64+0xac/0x280
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
...

Replace cancel_delayed_work() with cancel_delayed_work_sync() to ensure
that the delayed work item is properly canceled before the otx2_ptp is
deallocated.

This bug was initially identified through static analysis. To reproduce
and test it, I simulated the OcteonTX2 PCI device in QEMU and introduced
artificial delays within the otx2_sync_tstamp() function to increase the
likelihood of triggering the bug.

Fixes: 2958d17a89 ("octeontx2-pf: Add support for ptp 1-step mode on CN10K silicon")
Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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