When a parent macvlan device is destroyed we end up purging its
broadcast queue without dropping the device reference count on
the packet source device. This causes the source device to linger.
This patch drops that reference count.
Fixes: 02334e9325a8 ("macvlan: Fix potential use-after free for...")
Reported-by: Joe Ghalam <Joe.Ghalam@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
static void macvlan_port_destroy(struct net_device *dev)
{
struct macvlan_port *port = macvlan_port_get_rtnl(dev);
+ struct sk_buff *skb;
dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_MACVLAN_PORT;
netdev_rx_handler_unregister(dev);
* but we need to cancel it and purge left skbs if any.
*/
cancel_work_sync(&port->bc_work);
- __skb_queue_purge(&port->bc_queue);
+
+ while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&port->bc_queue))) {
+ const struct macvlan_dev *src = MACVLAN_SKB_CB(skb)->src;
+
+ if (src)
+ dev_put(src->dev);
+
+ kfree_skb(skb);
+ }
kfree(port);
}