CVE-2025-21739

scsi: ufs: core: Fix use-after free in init error and remove paths

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Feb 27, 2025
Updated
Jun 1, 2026
Reserved
Dec 29, 2024

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: ufs: core: Fix use-after free in init error and remove paths

devm_blk_crypto_profile_init() registers a cleanup handler to run when the associated (platform-) device is being released. For UFS, the crypto private data and pointers are stored as part of the ufs_hba's data structure 'struct ufs_hba::crypto_profile'. This structure is allocated as part of the underlying ufshcd and therefore Scsi_host allocation.

During driver release or during error handling in ufshcd_pltfrm_init(), this structure is released as part of ufshcd_dealloc_host() before the (platform-) device associated with the crypto call above is released. Once this device is released, the crypto cleanup code will run, using the just-released 'struct ufs_hba::crypto_profile'. This causes a use-after-free situation:

Call trace: kfree+0x60/0x2d8 (P) kvfree+0x44/0x60 blk_crypto_profile_destroy_callback+0x28/0x70 devm_action_release+0x1c/0x30 release_nodes+0x6c/0x108 devres_release_all+0x98/0x100 device_unbind_cleanup+0x20/0x70 really_probe+0x218/0x2d0

In other words, the initialisation code flow is:

platform-device probe ufshcd_pltfrm_init() ufshcd_alloc_host() scsi_host_alloc() allocation of struct ufs_hba creation of scsi-host devices devm_blk_crypto_profile_init() devm registration of cleanup handler using platform-device

and during error handling of ufshcd_pltfrm_init() or during driver removal:

ufshcd_dealloc_host() scsi_host_put() put_device(scsi-host) release of struct ufs_hba put_device(platform-device) crypto cleanup handler

To fix this use-after free, change ufshcd_alloc_host() to register a devres action to automatically cleanup the underlying SCSI device on ufshcd destruction, without requiring explicit calls to ufshcd_dealloc_host(). This way:

* the crypto profile and all other ufs_hba-owned resources are destroyed before SCSI (as they've been registered after) * a memleak is plugged in tc-dwc-g210-pci.c remove() as a side-effect * EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ufshcd_dealloc_host) can be removed fully as it's not needed anymore * no future drivers using ufshcd_alloc_host() could ever forget adding the cleanup

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • d76d9d7d1009968dd3a0fc30e5f5ee9fbffc1350 to before 0a6895c03b1f439236e2d22b1a69ebfc1eb9d5eaAffected
  • d76d9d7d1009968dd3a0fc30e5f5ee9fbffc1350 to before d06eb2620d3bf16056b8b7ea3744dbb5e30512f4Affected
  • d76d9d7d1009968dd3a0fc30e5f5ee9fbffc1350 to before 0dc539b888fb5f56b6eeddd95433eab557d4b0c1Affected
  • d76d9d7d1009968dd3a0fc30e5f5ee9fbffc1350 to before 0c77c0d754fe83cb154715fcfec6c3faef94f207Affected
  • d76d9d7d1009968dd3a0fc30e5f5ee9fbffc1350 to before 9c185beae09a3eb85f54777edafa227f7e03075dAffected
  • d76d9d7d1009968dd3a0fc30e5f5ee9fbffc1350 to before f8fb2403ddebb5eea0033d90d9daae4c88749adaAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.12Affected
  • before 5.12Not affected
  • 5.15.209 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.175 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.135 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.14 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13.3 through 6.13.*Not affected
  • 6.14 and laterNot affected

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