[PATCH 6.1 115/232] nfc: hci: shdlc: Stop timers and work before freeing context

Sasha Levin
2026-02-28T18:13:06Z

From: Votokina Victoria <Victoria.Votokina@kaspersky.com>

[ Upstream commit c9efde1e537baed7648a94022b43836a348a074f ]

llc_shdlc_deinit() purges SHDLC skb queues and frees the llc_shdlc
structure while its timers and state machine work may still be active.

Timer callbacks can schedule sm_work, and sm_work accesses SHDLC state
and the skb queues. If teardown happens in parallel with a queued/running
work item, it can lead to UAF and other shutdown races.

Stop all SHDLC timers and cancel sm_work synchronously before purging the
queues and freeing the context.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Fixes: 4a61cd6687fc ("NFC: Add an shdlc llc module to llc core")
Signed-off-by: Votokina Victoria <Victoria.Votokina@kaspersky.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260203113158.2008723-1-Victoria.Votokina@kaspersky.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/nfc/hci/llc_shdlc.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/nfc/hci/llc_shdlc.c b/net/nfc/hci/llc_shdlc.c
index e90f70385813a..a106f4352356d 100644
--- a/net/nfc/hci/llc_shdlc.c
+++ b/net/nfc/hci/llc_shdlc.c
@@ -762,6 +762,14 @@ static void llc_shdlc_deinit(struct nfc_llc *llc)
{
struct llc_shdlc *shdlc = nfc_llc_get_data(llc);

+ timer_shutdown_sync(&shdlc->connect_timer);
+ timer_shutdown_sync(&shdlc->t1_timer);
+ timer_shutdown_sync(&shdlc->t2_timer);
+ shdlc->t1_active = false;
+ shdlc->t2_active = false;
+
+ cancel_work_sync(&shdlc->sm_work);
+
skb_queue_purge(&shdlc->rcv_q);
skb_queue_purge(&shdlc->send_q);
skb_queue_purge(&shdlc->ack_pending_q);
--
2.51.0