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    USB: don't free bandwidth_mutex too early · 89583621
    Alan Stern authored
    BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1616318
    
    The USB core contains a bug that can show up when a USB-3 host
    controller is removed.  If the primary (USB-2) hcd structure is
    released before the shared (USB-3) hcd, the core will try to do a
    double-free of the common bandwidth_mutex.
    
    The problem was described in graphical form by Chung-Geol Kim, who
    first reported it:
    
    =================================================
         At *remove USB(3.0) Storage
         sequence <1> --> <5> ((Problem Case))
    =================================================
                                      VOLD
    ------------------------------------|------------
                                     (uevent)
                                ________|_________
                               |<1>               |
                               |dwc3_otg_sm_work  |
                               |usb_put_hcd       |
                               |peer_hcd(kref=2)|
                               |__________________|
                                ________|_________
                               |<2>               |
                               |New USB BUS #2    |
                               |                  |
                               |peer_hcd(kref=1)  |
                               |                  |
                             --(Link)-bandXX_mutex|
                             | |__________________|
                             |
        ___________________  |
       |<3>                | |
       |dwc3_otg_sm_work   | |
       |usb_put_hcd        | |
       |primary_hcd(kref=1)| |
       |___________________| |
        _________|_________  |
       |<4>                | |
       |New USB BUS #1     | |
       |hcd_release        | |
       |primary_hcd(kref=0)| |
       |                   | |
       |bandXX_mutex(free) |<-
       |___________________|
                                   (( VOLD ))
                                ______|___________
                               |<5>               |
                               |      SCSI        |
                               |usb_put_hcd       |
                               |peer_hcd(kref=0)  |
                               |*hcd_release      |
                               |bandXX_mutex(free*)|<- double free
                               |__________________|
    
    =================================================
    
    This happens because hcd_release() frees the bandwidth_mutex whenever
    it sees a primary hcd being released (which is not a very good idea
    in any case), but in the course of releasing the primary hcd, it
    changes the pointers in the shared hcd in such a way that the shared
    hcd will appear to be primary when it gets released.
    
    This patch fixes the problem by changing hcd_release() so that it
    deallocates the bandwidth_mutex only when the _last_ hcd structure
    referencing it is released.  The patch also removes an unnecessary
    test, so that when an hcd is released, both the shared_hcd and
    primary_hcd pointers in the hcd's peer will be cleared.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
    Reported-by: default avatarChung-Geol Kim <chunggeol.kim@samsung.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarChung-Geol Kim <chunggeol.kim@samsung.com>
    CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    (cherry picked from commit ab2a4bf8)
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAceLan Kao <acelan.kao@canonical.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarChristopher Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
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