git: 49b07b94662b - releng/14.2 - Fix Use-after-free in multi-threaded xz decoder.

From: Gordon Tetlow <gordon_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:28:13 UTC
The branch releng/14.2 has been updated by gordon:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=49b07b94662b92edb6d8de1e997fa805ac8d2b7c

commit 49b07b94662b92edb6d8de1e997fa805ac8d2b7c
Author:     Gordon Tetlow <gordon@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-07-02 05:56:35 +0000
Commit:     Gordon Tetlow <gordon@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-07-02 05:56:35 +0000

    Fix Use-after-free in multi-threaded xz decoder.
    
    Approved by:    so
    Security:       FreeBSD-SA-25:06.xz
    Security:       CVE-2025-31115
---
 contrib/xz/src/liblzma/common/stream_decoder_mt.c | 104 +++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/xz/src/liblzma/common/stream_decoder_mt.c b/contrib/xz/src/liblzma/common/stream_decoder_mt.c
index 76212b46da32..6bbbe53b5e32 100644
--- a/contrib/xz/src/liblzma/common/stream_decoder_mt.c
+++ b/contrib/xz/src/liblzma/common/stream_decoder_mt.c
@@ -24,15 +24,10 @@ typedef enum {
 	THR_IDLE,
 
 	/// Decoding is in progress.
-	/// Main thread may change this to THR_STOP or THR_EXIT.
+	/// Main thread may change this to THR_IDLE or THR_EXIT.
 	/// The worker thread may change this to THR_IDLE.
 	THR_RUN,
 
-	/// The main thread wants the thread to stop whatever it was doing
-	/// but not exit. Main thread may change this to THR_EXIT.
-	/// The worker thread may change this to THR_IDLE.
-	THR_STOP,
-
 	/// The main thread wants the thread to exit.
 	THR_EXIT,
 
@@ -347,27 +342,6 @@ worker_enable_partial_update(void *thr_ptr)
 }
 
 
-/// Things do to at THR_STOP or when finishing a Block.
-/// This is called with thr->mutex locked.
-static void
-worker_stop(struct worker_thread *thr)
-{
-	// Update memory usage counters.
-	thr->coder->mem_in_use -= thr->in_size;
-	thr->in_size = 0; // thr->in was freed above.
-
-	thr->coder->mem_in_use -= thr->mem_filters;
-	thr->coder->mem_cached += thr->mem_filters;
-
-	// Put this thread to the stack of free threads.
-	thr->next = thr->coder->threads_free;
-	thr->coder->threads_free = thr;
-
-	mythread_cond_signal(&thr->coder->cond);
-	return;
-}
-
-
 static MYTHREAD_RET_TYPE
 worker_decoder(void *thr_ptr)
 {
@@ -398,17 +372,6 @@ next_loop_unlocked:
 		return MYTHREAD_RET_VALUE;
 	}
 
-	if (thr->state == THR_STOP) {
-		thr->state = THR_IDLE;
-		mythread_mutex_unlock(&thr->mutex);
-
-		mythread_sync(thr->coder->mutex) {
-			worker_stop(thr);
-		}
-
-		goto next_loop_lock;
-	}
-
 	assert(thr->state == THR_RUN);
 
 	// Update progress info for get_progress().
@@ -473,8 +436,7 @@ next_loop_unlocked:
 	}
 
 	// Either we finished successfully (LZMA_STREAM_END) or an error
-	// occurred. Both cases are handled almost identically. The error
-	// case requires updating thr->coder->thread_error.
+	// occurred.
 	//
 	// The sizes are in the Block Header and the Block decoder
 	// checks that they match, thus we know these:
@@ -482,16 +444,30 @@ next_loop_unlocked:
 	assert(ret != LZMA_STREAM_END
 		|| thr->out_pos == thr->block_options.uncompressed_size);
 
-	// Free the input buffer. Don't update in_size as we need
-	// it later to update thr->coder->mem_in_use.
-	lzma_free(thr->in, thr->allocator);
-	thr->in = NULL;
-
 	mythread_sync(thr->mutex) {
+		// Block decoder ensures this, but do a sanity check anyway
+		// because thr->in_filled < thr->in_size means that the main
+		// thread is still writing to thr->in.
+		if (ret == LZMA_STREAM_END && thr->in_filled != thr->in_size) {
+			assert(0);
+			ret = LZMA_PROG_ERROR;
+		}
+
 		if (thr->state != THR_EXIT)
 			thr->state = THR_IDLE;
 	}
 
+	// Free the input buffer. Don't update in_size as we need
+	// it later to update thr->coder->mem_in_use.
+	//
+	// This step is skipped if an error occurred because the main thread
+	// might still be writing to thr->in. The memory will be freed after
+	// threads_end() sets thr->state = THR_EXIT.
+	if (ret == LZMA_STREAM_END) {
+		lzma_free(thr->in, thr->allocator);
+		thr->in = NULL;
+	}
+
 	mythread_sync(thr->coder->mutex) {
 		// Move our progress info to the main thread.
 		thr->coder->progress_in += thr->in_pos;
@@ -511,7 +487,20 @@ next_loop_unlocked:
 				&& thr->coder->thread_error == LZMA_OK)
 			thr->coder->thread_error = ret;
 
-		worker_stop(thr);
+		// Return the worker thread to the stack of available
+		// threads only if no errors occurred.
+		if (ret == LZMA_STREAM_END) {
+			// Update memory usage counters.
+			thr->coder->mem_in_use -= thr->in_size;
+			thr->coder->mem_in_use -= thr->mem_filters;
+			thr->coder->mem_cached += thr->mem_filters;
+
+			// Put this thread to the stack of free threads.
+			thr->next = thr->coder->threads_free;
+			thr->coder->threads_free = thr;
+		}
+
+		mythread_cond_signal(&thr->coder->cond);
 	}
 
 	goto next_loop_lock;
@@ -545,17 +534,22 @@ threads_end(struct lzma_stream_coder *coder, const lzma_allocator *allocator)
 }
 
 
+/// Tell worker threads to stop without doing any cleaning up.
+/// The clean up will be done when threads_exit() is called;
+/// it's not possible to reuse the threads after threads_stop().
+///
+/// This is called before returning an unrecoverable error code
+/// to the application. It would be waste of processor time
+/// to keep the threads running in such a situation.
 static void
 threads_stop(struct lzma_stream_coder *coder)
 {
 	for (uint32_t i = 0; i < coder->threads_initialized; ++i) {
+		// The threads that are in the THR_RUN state will stop
+		// when they check the state the next time. There's no
+		// need to signal coder->threads[i].cond.
 		mythread_sync(coder->threads[i].mutex) {
-			// The state must be changed conditionally because
-			// THR_IDLE -> THR_STOP is not a valid state change.
-			if (coder->threads[i].state != THR_IDLE) {
-				coder->threads[i].state = THR_STOP;
-				mythread_cond_signal(&coder->threads[i].cond);
-			}
+			coder->threads[i].state = THR_IDLE;
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -1562,6 +1556,10 @@ stream_decode_mt(void *coder_ptr, const lzma_allocator *allocator,
 		}
 
 		// Return if the input didn't contain the whole Block.
+		//
+		// NOTE: When we updated coder->thr->in_filled a few lines
+		// above, the worker thread might by now have finished its
+		// work and returned itself back to the stack of free threads.
 		if (coder->thr->in_filled < coder->thr->in_size) {
 			assert(*in_pos == in_size);
 			return LZMA_OK;
@@ -1949,7 +1947,7 @@ stream_decoder_mt_init(lzma_next_coder *next, const lzma_allocator *allocator,
 	// accounting from scratch, too. Changes in filter and block sizes may
 	// affect number of threads.
 	//
-	// FIXME? Reusing should be easy but unlike the single-threaded
+	// Reusing threads doesn't seem worth it. Unlike the single-threaded
 	// decoder, with some types of input file combinations reusing
 	// could leave quite a lot of memory allocated but unused (first
 	// file could allocate a lot, the next files could use fewer