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From: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
To: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: sched: fix a use-after-free error on chain on the error exit path
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 14:07:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170518140702.6072-1-colin.king@canonical.com> (raw)

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

Set chain to null after the call to tcf_chain_destroy so that we don't
call tcf_chain_put on the error exit path, thus avoiding a use-after-free
error.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1436357 ("Use after free")

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
---
 net/sched/cls_api.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/sched/cls_api.c b/net/sched/cls_api.c
index 4020b8d932a1..82ebdc3fcb2e 100644
--- a/net/sched/cls_api.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_api.c
@@ -511,6 +511,7 @@ static int tc_ctl_tfilter(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *n,
 	if (n->nlmsg_type = RTM_DELTFILTER && prio = 0) {
 		tfilter_notify_chain(net, skb, n, chain, RTM_DELTFILTER);
 		tcf_chain_destroy(chain);
+		chain = NULL;
 		err = 0;
 		goto errout;
 	}
-- 
2.11.0


             reply	other threads:[~2017-05-18 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-18 14:07 Colin King [this message]
2017-05-18 15:31 ` [PATCH] net: sched: fix a use-after-free error on chain on the error exit path David Miller
2017-05-19 17:17 ` Cong Wang
2017-05-20  7:13   ` Jiri Pirko

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