[PATCH 5.4 03/84] hamradio: remove needs_free_netdev to avoid UAF

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-05-04T16:48:46Z

From: Lin Ma <linma@zju.edu.cn>

commit 81b1d548d00bcd028303c4f3150fa753b9b8aa71 upstream.

The former patch "defer 6pack kfree after unregister_netdev" reorders
the kfree of two buffer after the unregister_netdev to prevent the race
condition. It also adds free_netdev() function in sixpack_close(), which
is a direct copy from the similar code in mkiss_close().

However, in sixpack driver, the flag needs_free_netdev is set to true in
sp_setup(), hence the unregister_netdev() will free the netdev
automatically. Therefore, as the sp is netdev_priv, use-after-free
occurs.

This patch removes the needs_free_netdev = true and just let the
free_netdev to finish this deallocation task.

Fixes: 0b9111922b1f ("hamradio: defer 6pack kfree after unregister_netdev")
Signed-off-by: Lin Ma <linma@zju.edu.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211111141402.7551-1-linma@zju.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ovidiu Panait <ovidiu.panait@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c
@@ -311,7 +311,6 @@ static void sp_setup(struct net_device *
{
/* Finish setting up the DEVICE info. */
dev->netdev_ops = &sp_netdev_ops;
- dev->needs_free_netdev = true;
dev->mtu = SIXP_MTU;
dev->hard_header_len = AX25_MAX_HEADER_LEN;
dev->header_ops = &ax25_header_ops;