From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>, Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH] RDMA/core: Fix use-after-free in ib_get_eth_speed()
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:05:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260821070512.3122442-1-edumazet@google.com> (raw)
In ib_get_eth_speed(), dev_put(netdev) is called before inspecting
rc and dereferencing netdev->name in pr_warn(). If dev_put() drops
the final reference to netdev, netdev->name accesses freed memory.
Move dev_put(netdev) after the warning block so netdev is kept
alive while its name is read.
Fixes: d41861942fc5 ("IB/core: Add generic function to extract IB speed from netdev")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c
index 86811d31092ce03c8156b444fece47b824231219..57f109c8085dadf90bcc498a9ee64eea3c5f5271 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c
@@ -2052,8 +2052,6 @@ int ib_get_eth_speed(struct ib_device *dev, u32 port_num, u16 *speed, u8 *width)
rc = __ethtool_get_link_ksettings(netdev, &lksettings);
rtnl_unlock();
- dev_put(netdev);
-
if (!rc && lksettings.base.speed != (u32)SPEED_UNKNOWN) {
netdev_speed = lksettings.base.speed;
} else {
@@ -2063,6 +2061,8 @@ int ib_get_eth_speed(struct ib_device *dev, u32 port_num, u16 *speed, u8 *width)
netdev->name, netdev_speed);
}
+ dev_put(netdev);
+
ib_get_width_and_speed(netdev_speed, lksettings.lanes,
speed, width);
--
2.55.0.766.g2966f0265a-goog
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-21 7:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-21 7:05 Eric Dumazet [this message]
2026-08-21 8:19 ` [PATCH] RDMA/core: Fix use-after-free in ib_get_eth_speed() Kalesh Anakkur Purayil
2026-08-21 13:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-08-21 13:33 ` Eric Dumazet
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