From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Pei Xiao <xiaopei01@kylinos.cn>
Cc: andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com,
pabeni@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: natsemi: ns83820: Fix use-after-free in ns83820_remove_one due to race condition
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:45:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260810144520.4dd6a55c@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb169d89c2e4589b1994b3526102b8b1367c2261.1785810962.git.xiaopei01@kylinos.cn>
On Tue, 4 Aug 2026 10:38:12 +0800 Pei Xiao wrote:
> free_netdev(ndev) |
> // dev is freed |
isn't there obviously a window here for the work to run after dev is
freed but before we canceled?
> | queue_refill
> | // use dev (use-after-free)
--
pw-bot: cr
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2026-08-04 2:38 [PATCH] net: natsemi: ns83820: Fix use-after-free in ns83820_remove_one due to race condition Pei Xiao
2026-08-10 21:45 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
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