From patchwork Thu Apr 4 13:25:13 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Luis Henriques X-Patchwork-Id: 233783 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDEE62C00AE for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2013 00:25:25 +1100 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UNkAH-0008Nx-L5; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:25:17 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UNkAG-0008N8-7b for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:25:16 +0000 Received: from bl15-101-121.dsl.telepac.pt ([188.80.101.121] helo=localhost) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNkAF-0003AW-Cf; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:25:15 +0000 From: Luis Henriques To: Cong Wang Subject: [ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "8021q: fix a potential use-after-free" has been added to staging queue Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 14:25:13 +0100 Message-Id: <1365081913-14227-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 X-Extended-Stable: 3.5 Cc: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, Eric Dumazet , Patrick McHardy , "David S. Miller" X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled 8021q: fix a potential use-after-free to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Luis ------ From 4405dfe7d19bd15f92654036016f3963103396f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cong Wang Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:14:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 8021q: fix a potential use-after-free commit 4a7df340ed1bac190c124c1601bfc10cde9fb4fb upstream. 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 Cc: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques --- net/8021q/vlan.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) -- 1.8.1.2 diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan.c b/net/8021q/vlan.c index 9096bcb..8bdc56d 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_GVRP) @@ -108,6 +101,13 @@ void unregister_vlan_dev(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head) if (grp->nr_vlan_devs == 0) 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); }