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hamradio: defer ax25 kfree after unregister_netdev
authorLin Ma <linma@zju.edu.cn>
Mon, 8 Nov 2021 10:37:21 +0000 (18:37 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 29 Dec 2021 11:14:49 +0000 (12:14 +0100)
commit8a1a314965a17c62084a056b4f2cb7a770854c90
treef79aaf0821ae4f1af10c190d4a234bae2f544dce
parentbc284281e7da02fdc16914295c4d7ac65f09f744
hamradio: defer ax25 kfree after unregister_netdev

commit 3e0588c291d6ce225f2b891753ca41d45ba42469 upstream.

There is a possible race condition (use-after-free) like below

 (USE)                       |  (FREE)
ax25_sendmsg                 |
 ax25_queue_xmit             |
  dev_queue_xmit             |
   __dev_queue_xmit          |
    __dev_xmit_skb           |
     sch_direct_xmit         | ...
      xmit_one               |
       netdev_start_xmit     | tty_ldisc_kill
        __netdev_start_xmit  |  mkiss_close
         ax_xmit             |   kfree
          ax_encaps          |
                             |

Even though there are two synchronization primitives before the kfree:
1. wait_for_completion(&ax->dead). This can prevent the race with
routines from mkiss_ioctl. However, it cannot stop the routine coming
from upper layer, i.e., the ax25_sendmsg.

2. netif_stop_queue(ax->dev). It seems that this line of code aims to
halt the transmit queue but it fails to stop the routine that already
being xmit.

This patch reorder the kfree after the unregister_netdev to avoid the
possible UAF as the unregister_netdev() is well synchronized and won't
return if there is a running routine.

Signed-off-by: Lin Ma <linma@zju.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c