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  1. Core ReactOS
  2. CORE-17904

Objects should not be dereferenced after ObInsertObject fails

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Major
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    • NTCore

    Description

      In order to create a new NT object, kernel-mode code does something like the following:

      Status = ObCreateObject(..., (PVOID*)&Object);
      if (NT_SUCCESS(Status))
      {
          // initialize fields on "Object"
          Object->Field1 = 1234;
          // ...
          Status = ObInsertObject(Object, ..., &Handle);
          if (NT_SUCCESS(Status))
          {
              *UserHandle = Handle;
          }
      }
      return Status;
      

      Note that in the case where ObInsertObject fails, the function automatically dereferences the object, so it is not necessary for the calling code to do this (nor should Object be accessed in any other ways in the case where ObInsertObject fails). Note that dereferencing a different object in this case may still make sense.

      Looking at all callers of ObInsertObject, we have a few places where the caller incorrectly makes such a call to ObDereferenceObject.
      Please review all call sites and fix the ones that have this bug: https://git.reactos.org/?p=reactos.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=grep&s=ObInsertObject

      A straightforward example of the bug (from MmCreatePhysicalMemorySection in ntoskrnl/mm/section.c):

      2242     Status = ObInsertObject(PhysSection,
      2243                             NULL,
      2244                             SECTION_ALL_ACCESS,
      2245                             0,
      2246                             NULL,
      2247                             &Handle);
      2248     if (!NT_SUCCESS(Status))
      2249     {
      2250         ObDereferenceObject(PhysSection);
      2251         return Status;
      2252     }
      2253     ObCloseHandle(Handle, KernelMode);
      2254 
      2255     return STATUS_SUCCESS;
      

      In this failure case, PhysSection will be dereferenced twice (once by ObInsertObject and once by MmCreatePhysicalMemorySection)..

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