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8021q: fix a potential use-after-free
authorCong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:14:07 +0000 (19:14 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 5 Apr 2013 17:04:38 +0000 (10:04 -0700)
[ Upstream commit 4a7df340ed1bac190c124c1601bfc10cde9fb4fb ]

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.

Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/8021q/vlan.c

index cf4a49c5623cdafa2cd60edaf69cf092c3b2509a..e22b8ada799cd22e6b6e685770c1951ddfe86481 100644 (file)
@@ -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);
 }