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* [PATCH net] ice: fix double free in ice_sf_eth_activate() error path
@ 2026-04-09 15:11 Greg Kroah-Hartman
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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman @ 2026-04-09 15:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: intel-wired-lan, netdev
  Cc: linux-kernel, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Tony Nguyen, Przemek Kitszel,
	Andrew Lunn, David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski,
	Paolo Abeni, Piotr Raczynski, Jiri Pirko, Simon Horman,
	Michal Swiatkowski, stable

When auxiliary_device_add() fails, the aux_dev_uninit label calls
auxiliary_device_uninit() and falls through to sf_dev_free and xa_erase.
The uninit invokes ice_sf_dev_release(), which already frees sf_dev via
kfree() and erases the entry from ice_sf_aux_id.  The fall-through then
double-frees sf_dev and double-erases the id.

This is reachable from userspace via the devlink port function state-set
netlink command.

Fix this by returning right after uninit because the release callback
handles all cleanup correctly.

Cc: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Cc: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Piotr Raczynski <piotr.raczynski@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: 177ef7f1e2a0 ("ice: base subfunction aux driver")
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: gregkh_clanker_t1000
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sf_eth.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sf_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sf_eth.c
index 2cf04bc6edce..6bc8aa896762 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sf_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sf_eth.c
@@ -304,7 +304,9 @@ ice_sf_eth_activate(struct ice_dynamic_port *dyn_port,
 	return 0;
 
 aux_dev_uninit:
+	/* ice_sf_dev_release() frees sf_dev and erases the xa entry */
 	auxiliary_device_uninit(&sf_dev->adev);
+	return err;
 sf_dev_free:
 	kfree(sf_dev);
 xa_erase:
-- 
2.53.0


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