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From: Wong Boon Jhee <wongboonjhee52@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Wong Boon Jhee <wongboonjhee52@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net v2] net/ncsi: Fix Use-After-Free in NCSI channel and package removal
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:44:03 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260816084403.295808-1-wongboonjhee52@gmail.com> (raw)

In net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c, ncsi_remove_channel() and
ncsi_remove_package() remove objects from an RCU-protected linked list
using list_del_rcu() and immediately free them using kfree().

Because there is no call to synchronize_rcu() or kfree_rcu(), concurrent
readers traversing these lists under rcu_read_lock() (such as Netlink
dump handlers) can still hold a valid pointer to the object. When kfree()
executes, the reader is left holding a dangling pointer to freed memory,
resulting in a slab-use-after-free.

This patch fixes the issue by replacing kfree() with kfree_rcu(), which
defers the memory freeing until all pre-existing RCU readers have finished
their critical sections. To support this, a struct rcu_head has been
added to struct ncsi_channel, struct ncsi_package, and struct ncsi_dev_priv.

KASAN confirms the freed object belongs to the kmalloc-96 cache, and the
fix completely eliminates the crash.

Fixes: 2d283bdd079c ("net/ncsi: Resource management")
Signed-off-by: Wong Boon Jhee <wongboonjhee52@gmail.com>

---
Changes in v2:
- Rebased on the latest net tree as requested.
---
 net/ncsi/internal.h    | 2 ++
 net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ncsi/internal.h b/net/ncsi/internal.h
index adee6dcabdc3..19785ca2392a 100644
--- a/net/ncsi/internal.h
+++ b/net/ncsi/internal.h
@@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ struct ncsi_channel {
 	} monitor;
 	struct list_head            node;
 	struct list_head            link;
+	struct rcu_head             rcu; /* RCU cleanup */ 
 };
 
 struct ncsi_package {
@@ -253,6 +254,7 @@ struct ncsi_package {
 	bool                 multi_channel; /* Enable multiple channels  */
 	u32                  channel_whitelist; /* Channels to configure */
 	struct ncsi_channel  *preferred_channel; /* Primary channel      */
+	struct rcu_head      rcu; /* RCU cleanup */ 
 };
 
 struct ncsi_request {
diff --git a/net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c b/net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c
index 54d0df0a9efe..368085627807 100644
--- a/net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c
+++ b/net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ static void ncsi_remove_channel(struct ncsi_channel *nc)
 	np->channel_num--;
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&np->lock, flags);
 
-	kfree(nc);
+	kfree_rcu(nc, rcu);
 }
 
 struct ncsi_package *ncsi_find_package(struct ncsi_dev_priv *ndp,
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ void ncsi_remove_package(struct ncsi_package *np)
 	ndp->package_num--;
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ndp->lock, flags);
 
-	kfree(np);
+	kfree_rcu(np, rcu);
 }
 
 void ncsi_find_package_and_channel(struct ncsi_dev_priv *ndp,
-- 
2.55.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-08-16  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-16  8:44 Wong Boon Jhee [this message]
2026-08-19 15:31 ` [PATCH net v2] net/ncsi: Fix Use-After-Free in NCSI channel and package removal Simon Horman

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