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net: mana: fix use-after-free in mana_hwc_destroy_channel() by reordering teardown
authorDipayaan Roy <dipayanroy@linux.microsoft.com>
Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:22:04 +0000 (12:22 -0700)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:40:50 +0000 (10:40 -0700)
commitfa103fc8f56954a60699a29215cb713448a39e87
treea41a73e17385bf94f751ab04de14640cc4ae93ef
parent6cfc3bc02b977f2fba5f7268e6504d1931a774f7
net: mana: fix use-after-free in mana_hwc_destroy_channel() by reordering teardown

A potential race condition exists in mana_hwc_destroy_channel() where
hwc->caller_ctx is freed before the HWC's Completion Queue (CQ) and
Event Queue (EQ) are destroyed. This allows an in-flight CQ interrupt
handler to dereference freed memory, leading to a use-after-free or
NULL pointer dereference in mana_hwc_handle_resp().

mana_smc_teardown_hwc() signals the hardware to stop but does not
synchronize against IRQ handlers already executing on other CPUs. The
IRQ synchronization only happens in mana_hwc_destroy_cq() via
mana_gd_destroy_eq() -> mana_gd_deregister_irq(). Since this runs
after kfree(hwc->caller_ctx), a concurrent mana_hwc_rx_event_handler()
can dereference freed caller_ctx (and rxq->msg_buf) in
mana_hwc_handle_resp().

Fix this by reordering teardown to reverse-of-creation order: destroy
the TX/RX work queues and CQ/EQ before freeing hwc->caller_ctx. This
ensures all in-flight interrupt handlers complete before the memory they
access is freed.

Fixes: ca9c54d2d6a5 ("net: mana: Add a driver for Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA)")
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Dipayaan Roy <dipayanroy@linux.microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/abHA3AjNtqa1nx9k@linuxonhyperv3.guj3yctzbm1etfxqx2vob5hsef.xx.internal.cloudapp.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/hw_channel.c