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[net-next] 8021q: fix a potential use-after-free

Message ID 1364015648-4195-1-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Amerigo Wang March 23, 2013, 5:14 a.m. UTC
From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>

vlan_vid_del() could possibly free ->vlan_info after a RCU grace
period, however, we may still refer to the freed memory area
by 'grp' pointer. Found by code inspection.

This patch moves vlan_vid_del() as behind as possible.

Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
---
 net/8021q/vlan.c |   14 +++++++-------
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Comments

Eric Dumazet March 23, 2013, 3:16 p.m. UTC | #1
On Sat, 2013-03-23 at 13:14 +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
> 
> vlan_vid_del() could possibly free ->vlan_info after a RCU grace
> period, however, we may still refer to the freed memory area
> by 'grp' pointer. Found by code inspection.
> 
> This patch moves vlan_vid_del() as behind as possible.
> 
> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
> ---
>  net/8021q/vlan.c |   14 +++++++-------
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>


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David Miller March 24, 2013, 9:27 p.m. UTC | #2
From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 13:14:07 +0800

> From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
> 
> vlan_vid_del() could possibly free ->vlan_info after a RCU grace
> period, however, we may still refer to the freed memory area
> by 'grp' pointer. Found by code inspection.
> 
> This patch moves vlan_vid_del() as behind as possible.
> 
> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>

Applied.
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diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan.c b/net/8021q/vlan.c
index a187144..85addcd 100644
--- a/net/8021q/vlan.c
+++ b/net/8021q/vlan.c
@@ -86,13 +86,6 @@  void unregister_vlan_dev(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head)
 
 	grp = &vlan_info->grp;
 
-	/* Take it out of our own structures, but be sure to interlock with
-	 * HW accelerating devices or SW vlan input packet processing if
-	 * VLAN is not 0 (leave it there for 802.1p).
-	 */
-	if (vlan_id)
-		vlan_vid_del(real_dev, vlan_id);
-
 	grp->nr_vlan_devs--;
 
 	if (vlan->flags & VLAN_FLAG_MVRP)
@@ -114,6 +107,13 @@  void unregister_vlan_dev(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head)
 		vlan_gvrp_uninit_applicant(real_dev);
 	}
 
+	/* Take it out of our own structures, but be sure to interlock with
+	 * HW accelerating devices or SW vlan input packet processing if
+	 * VLAN is not 0 (leave it there for 802.1p).
+	 */
+	if (vlan_id)
+		vlan_vid_del(real_dev, vlan_id);
+
 	/* Get rid of the vlan's reference to real_dev */
 	dev_put(real_dev);
 }