From: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Di Zhu <zhudi2@huawei.com>, Rui Zhang <zhangrui182@huawei.com>,
Gurucharan G <gurucharanx.g@intel.com>,
Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 06/21] i40e: fix use-after-free in i40e_sync_filters_subtask()
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 11:10:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220110101001.GB5588@duo.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220110071814.172190135@linuxfoundation.org>
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Hi!
> commit 3116f59c12bd24c513194cd3acb3ec1f7d468954 upstream.
>
> Using ifconfig command to delete the ipv6 address will cause
> the i40e network card driver to delete its internal mac_filter and
> i40e_service_task kernel thread will concurrently access the mac_filter.
> These two processes are not protected by lock
> so causing the following use-after-free problems.
Ok, but...
> +static void netdev_hw_addr_refcnt(struct i40e_mac_filter *f,
> + struct net_device *netdev, int delta)
> +{
> + struct netdev_hw_addr *ha;
> +
> + if (!f || !netdev)
> + return;
> +
> + netdev_for_each_mc_addr(ha, netdev) {
> + if (ether_addr_equal(ha->addr, f->macaddr)) {
> + ha->refcount += delta;
> + if (ha->refcount <= 0)
> + ha->refcount = 1;
> + break;
> + }
> + }
> +}
What is going on here? Is refcount expected to underflow under normal
operation? Should we at least have WARN_ON there?
Best regards,
Pavel
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-10 7:23 [PATCH 4.19 00/21] 4.19.225-rc1 review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-10 7:23 ` [PATCH 4.19 01/21] tracing: Fix check for trace_percpu_buffer validity in get_trace_buf() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-10 7:23 ` [PATCH 4.19 02/21] tracing: Tag trace_percpu_buffer as a percpu pointer Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-10 7:23 ` [PATCH 4.19 03/21] ieee802154: atusb: fix uninit value in atusb_set_extended_addr Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-10 7:23 ` [PATCH 4.19 04/21] RDMA/core: Dont infoleak GRH fields Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-10 7:23 ` [PATCH 4.19 05/21] mac80211: initialize variable have_higher_than_11mbit Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-10 7:23 ` [PATCH 4.19 06/21] i40e: fix use-after-free in i40e_sync_filters_subtask() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-10 10:10 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2022-01-10 7:23 ` [PATCH 4.19 07/21] i40e: Fix incorrect netdevs real number of RX/TX queues Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-10 7:23 ` [PATCH 4.19 08/21] ipv6: Check attribute length for RTA_GATEWAY in multipath route Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-10 7:23 ` [PATCH 4.19 09/21] ipv6: Check attribute length for RTA_GATEWAY when deleting " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-10 7:23 ` [PATCH 4.19 10/21] sch_qfq: prevent shift-out-of-bounds in qfq_init_qdisc Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-10 7:23 ` [PATCH 4.19 11/21] xfs: map unwritten blocks in XFS_IOC_{ALLOC,FREE}SP just like fallocate Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-10 7:23 ` [PATCH 4.19 12/21] power: reset: ltc2952: Fix use of floating point literals Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-10 7:23 ` [PATCH 4.19 13/21] rndis_host: support Hytera digital radios Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-10 7:23 ` [PATCH 4.19 14/21] phonet: refcount leak in pep_sock_accep Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-10 7:23 ` [PATCH 4.19 15/21] ipv6: Continue processing multipath route even if gateway attribute is invalid Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-10 7:23 ` [PATCH 4.19 16/21] ipv6: Do cleanup if attribute validation fails in multipath route Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-10 7:23 ` [PATCH 4.19 17/21] usb: mtu3: fix interval value for intr and isoc Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-10 7:23 ` [PATCH 4.19 18/21] scsi: libiscsi: Fix UAF in iscsi_conn_get_param()/iscsi_conn_teardown() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-10 7:23 ` [PATCH 4.19 19/21] ip6_vti: initialize __ip6_tnl_parm struct in vti6_siocdevprivate Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-10 7:23 ` [PATCH 4.19 20/21] net: udp: fix alignment problem in udp4_seq_show() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-10 7:23 ` [PATCH 4.19 21/21] mISDN: change function names to avoid conflicts Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-10 11:49 ` [PATCH 4.19 00/21] 4.19.225-rc1 review Jon Hunter
2022-01-10 22:59 ` Shuah Khan
2022-01-10 23:49 ` Guenter Roeck
2022-01-11 0:49 ` Samuel Zou
2022-01-11 5:53 ` Naresh Kamboju
2022-01-11 11:35 ` Pavel Machek
2022-01-11 12:35 ` Sudip Mukherjee
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