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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Wentao_Liang <Wentao_Liang_g@163.com>, jdmason@kudzu.us
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [PATCH net v2]vexy: Fix a use-after-free bug in vxge-main.c
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 19:50:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220615195050.6e4785ef@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220615013816.6593-1-Wentao_Liang_g@163.com>

Jon, if you're there, do you have any sense on whether this HW is still
in production somewhere? I scrolled thru last 5 years of the git history
and there doesn't seem to be any meaningful change here while there's a
significant volume of refactoring going in. 


On the patch itself:

On Wed, 15 Jun 2022 09:38:16 +0800 Wentao_Liang wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH net v2]vexy: Fix a use-after-free bug in vxge-main.c

No need to repeat "[PATCH]"
The driver is not called "vexy" as far as I can tell.

> The pointer vdev points to a memory region adjacent to a net_device
> structure ndev, which is a field of hldev. At line 4740, the invocation
> to vxge_device_unregister unregisters device hldev, and it also releases
> the memory region pointed by vdev->bar0. At line 4743, the freed memory
> region is referenced (i.e., iounmap(vdev->bar0)), resulting in a
> use-after-free vulnerability. We can fix the bug by calling iounmap
> before vxge_device_unregister.

Are you sure the bar0 is not needed by the netdev? You're freeing
memory that the netdev may need until it's unregistered.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-16  2:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-15  1:38 [PATCH] [PATCH net v2]vexy: Fix a use-after-free bug in vxge-main.c Wentao_Liang
2022-06-16  2:50 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
     [not found]   ` <1f10f9f8.6c02.1816cb0dc51.Coremail.wentao_liang_g@163.com>
2022-06-16 15:50     ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-06-20 14:40   ` Jon Mason
2022-06-20 15:02     ` Jakub Kicinski

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