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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)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 9 Nov 2021 11:48:39 +0000 (11:48 +0000)
commit7c1da104def9f7e529e5c15a169de629db0efa13
treeb7cc68c35dcab1f3a89b7c4c26291d683d46d698
parent85c8c8e2506c70348297d4aad482cfebfc437927
hamradio: defer ax25 kfree after unregister_netdev

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>
drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c