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From: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
To: Hidayath Khan <hidayath@linux.ibm.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
	Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
	Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>,
	Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] net/dibs: Fix UAF of dmb_clientid_arr after dibs_dev_del()
Date: Tue,  4 Aug 2026 10:58:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260804085848.3579518-1-wintera@linux.ibm.com> (raw)

A dibs device interrupt handler can be active after dibs_dev_del() and
may still access dmb_clientid_arr.

Free dmb_clientid_arr in dibs_dev_release() after last reference is gone.
Note that allocating in dibs_dev_add() instead of dibs_dev_alloc() is ok
for now, because no dmbs can be registered before dibs_dev_add().

Fixes: cc21191b584c ("dibs: Move data path to dibs layer")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Co-developed-by: Hidayath Khan <hidayath@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidayath Khan <hidayath@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/dibs/dibs_main.c | 14 ++++----------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dibs/dibs_main.c b/drivers/dibs/dibs_main.c
index 14c3e2d84902..f059fefb09bf 100644
--- a/drivers/dibs/dibs_main.c
+++ b/drivers/dibs/dibs_main.c
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ static void dibs_dev_release(struct device *dev)
 
 	dibs = container_of(dev, struct dibs_dev, dev);
 
+	kfree(dibs->dmb_clientid_arr);
 	kfree(dibs);
 }
 
@@ -194,12 +195,13 @@ int dibs_dev_add(struct dibs_dev *dibs)
 
 	ret = device_add(&dibs->dev);
 	if (ret)
-		goto free_client_arr;
+		return ret;
 
 	ret = sysfs_create_group(&dibs->dev.kobj, &dibs_dev_attr_group);
 	if (ret) {
 		dev_err(&dibs->dev, "sysfs_create_group failed for dibs_dev\n");
-		goto err_device_del;
+		device_del(&dibs->dev);
+		return ret;
 	}
 	mutex_lock(&dibs_dev_list.mutex);
 	mutex_lock(&clients_lock);
@@ -214,13 +216,6 @@ int dibs_dev_add(struct dibs_dev *dibs)
 	mutex_unlock(&dibs_dev_list.mutex);
 
 	return 0;
-
-err_device_del:
-	device_del(&dibs->dev);
-free_client_arr:
-	kfree(dibs->dmb_clientid_arr);
-	return ret;
-
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dibs_dev_add);
 
@@ -247,7 +242,6 @@ void dibs_dev_del(struct dibs_dev *dibs)
 	mutex_unlock(&dibs_dev_list.mutex);
 
 	device_del(&dibs->dev);
-	kfree(dibs->dmb_clientid_arr);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dibs_dev_del);
 
-- 
2.53.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-08-04  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-04  8:58 Alexandra Winter [this message]
2026-08-06 13:02 ` [PATCH net] net/dibs: Fix UAF of dmb_clientid_arr after dibs_dev_del() Simon Horman
2026-08-06 16:06 ` Jakub Kicinski

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