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From: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>,
	Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>, Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>,
	Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>,
	Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>,
	Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	James Guan <guan_yufei@163.com>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
	Paul Moses <p@1g4.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>
Cc: security@kernel.org, notify@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] wifi: virt_wifi: remove SET_NETDEV_DEV to avoid use-after-free
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:46:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260324224607.374327-1-alex.popov@linux.com> (raw)

Currently we execute `SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &priv->lowerdev->dev)` for
the virt_wifi net devices. However, unregistering a virt_wifi device in
netdev_run_todo() can happen together with the device referenced by
SET_NETDEV_DEV().

It can result in use-after-free during the ethtool operations performed
on a virt_wifi device that is currently being unregistered. Such a net
device can have the `dev.parent` field pointing to the freed memory,
but ethnl_ops_begin() calls `pm_runtime_get_sync(dev->dev.parent)`.

Let's remove SET_NETDEV_DEV for virt_wifi to avoid bugs like this:

 ==================================================================
 BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __pm_runtime_resume+0xe2/0xf0
 Read of size 2 at addr ffff88810cfc46f8 by task pm/606

 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  dump_stack_lvl+0x4d/0x70
  print_report+0x170/0x4f3
  ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10
  kasan_report+0xda/0x110
  ? __pm_runtime_resume+0xe2/0xf0
  ? __pm_runtime_resume+0xe2/0xf0
  __pm_runtime_resume+0xe2/0xf0
  ethnl_ops_begin+0x49/0x270
  ethnl_set_features+0x23c/0xab0
  ? __pfx_ethnl_set_features+0x10/0x10
  ? kvm_sched_clock_read+0x11/0x20
  ? local_clock_noinstr+0xf/0xf0
  ? local_clock+0x10/0x30
  ? kasan_save_track+0x25/0x60
  ? __kasan_kmalloc+0x7f/0x90
  ? genl_family_rcv_msg_attrs_parse.isra.0+0x150/0x2c0
  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x1e7/0x2c0
  ? __pfx_genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x10/0x10
  ? __pfx_cred_has_capability.isra.0+0x10/0x10
  ? stack_trace_save+0x8e/0xc0
  genl_rcv_msg+0x411/0x660
  ? __pfx_genl_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10
  ? __pfx_ethnl_set_features+0x10/0x10
  netlink_rcv_skb+0x121/0x380
  ? __pfx_genl_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10
  ? __pfx_netlink_rcv_skb+0x10/0x10
  ? __pfx_down_read+0x10/0x10
  genl_rcv+0x23/0x30
  netlink_unicast+0x60f/0x830
  ? __pfx_netlink_unicast+0x10/0x10
  ? __pfx___alloc_skb+0x10/0x10
  netlink_sendmsg+0x6ea/0xbc0
  ? __pfx_netlink_sendmsg+0x10/0x10
  ? __futex_queue+0x10b/0x1f0
  ____sys_sendmsg+0x7a2/0x950
  ? copy_msghdr_from_user+0x26b/0x430
  ? __pfx_____sys_sendmsg+0x10/0x10
  ? __pfx_copy_msghdr_from_user+0x10/0x10
  ___sys_sendmsg+0xf8/0x180
  ? __pfx____sys_sendmsg+0x10/0x10
  ? __pfx_futex_wait+0x10/0x10
  ? fdget+0x2e4/0x4a0
  __sys_sendmsg+0x11f/0x1c0
  ? __pfx___sys_sendmsg+0x10/0x10
  do_syscall_64+0xe2/0x570
  ? exc_page_fault+0x66/0xb0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
  </TASK>

This fix may be combined with another one in the ethtool subsystem:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260322075917.254874-1-alex.popov@linux.com/T/#u

Fixes: d43c65b05b848e0b ("ethtool: runtime-resume netdev parent in ethnl_ops_begin")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/virtual/virt_wifi.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/virtual/virt_wifi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/virtual/virt_wifi.c
index 885dc7243e8d..97bd39d89e98 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/virtual/virt_wifi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/virtual/virt_wifi.c
@@ -557,7 +557,6 @@ static int virt_wifi_newlink(struct net_device *dev,
 	eth_hw_addr_inherit(dev, priv->lowerdev);
 	netif_stacked_transfer_operstate(priv->lowerdev, dev);
 
-	SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &priv->lowerdev->dev);
 	dev->ieee80211_ptr = kzalloc_obj(*dev->ieee80211_ptr);
 
 	if (!dev->ieee80211_ptr) {
-- 
2.53.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-24 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-24 22:46 Alexander Popov [this message]
2026-03-25  8:35 ` [PATCH] wifi: virt_wifi: remove SET_NETDEV_DEV to avoid use-after-free Greg KH
2026-03-25  9:23 ` Breno Leitao
2026-03-25 12:34 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-03-25 13:47   ` Greg KH
2026-03-25 17:24   ` Alexander Popov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2026-04-07 11:14 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] wifi: virt_wifi: remove SET_NETDEV_DEV to avoid" failed to apply to 6.19-stable tree gregkh
2026-04-08  6:10 ` [PATCH] wifi: virt_wifi: remove SET_NETDEV_DEV to avoid use-after-free Alexander Popov

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