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Description

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

firmware: arm_scmi: Fix double free in SMC transport cleanup path

When the generic SCMI code tears down a channel, it calls the chan_free
callback function, defined by each transport. Since multiple protocols
might share the same transport_info member, chan_free() might want to
clean up the same member multiple times within the given SCMI transport
implementation. In this case, it is SMC transport. This will lead to a NULL
pointer dereference at the second time:

    | scmi_protocol scmi_dev.1: Enabled polling mode TX channel - prot_id:16
    | arm-scmi firmware:scmi: SCMI Notifications - Core Enabled.
    | arm-scmi firmware:scmi: unable to communicate with SCMI
    | Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
    | Mem abort info:
    |   ESR = 0x0000000096000004
    |   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
    |   SET = 0, FnV = 0
    |   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
    |   FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
    | Data abort info:
    |   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000
    |   CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
    |   GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
    | user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000881ef8000
    | 0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
     ( Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1) PREEMPT SMP
    | Modules linked in:
    | CPU: 4 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc2-00124-g455ef3d016c9-dirty #793
    | Hardware name: FVP Base RevC (DT)
    | pstate: 61400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
    | pc : smc_chan_free+0x3c/0x6c
    | lr : smc_chan_free+0x3c/0x6c
    | Call trace:
    |  smc_chan_free+0x3c/0x6c
    |  idr_for_each+0x68/0xf8
    |  scmi_cleanup_channels.isra.0+0x2c/0x58
    |  scmi_probe+0x434/0x734
    |  platform_probe+0x68/0xd8
    |  really_probe+0x110/0x27c
    |  __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x12c
    |  driver_probe_device+0x3c/0x118
    |  __driver_attach+0x74/0x128
    |  bus_for_each_dev+0x78/0xe0
    |  driver_attach+0x24/0x30
    |  bus_add_driver+0xe4/0x1e8
    |  driver_register+0x60/0x128
    |  __platform_driver_register+0x28/0x34
    |  scmi_driver_init+0x84/0xc0
    |  do_one_initcall+0x78/0x33c
    |  kernel_init_freeable+0x2b8/0x51c
    |  kernel_init+0x24/0x130
    |  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
    | Code: f0004701 910a0021 aa1403e5 97b91c70 (b9400280)
    | --- end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Simply check for the struct pointer being NULL before trying to access
its members, to avoid this situation.

This was found when a transport doesn't really work (for instance no SMC
service), the probe routines then tries to clean up, and triggers a crash.

CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) [CVE-2024-26893 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26893)

CVEs

• CVE-2024-26893