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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Jeremy Kerr <jk@codeconstruct.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>,
	Jacky Chou <jacky_chou@aspeedtech.com>,
	Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] net: ethernet: ftgmac100: prevent use after free on unregister when using NCSI
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 15:36:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241029153619.1743f07e@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0123d308bb8577e7ccb5d99c504cec389ba8fe15.camel@codeconstruct.com.au>

On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:32:53 +0800 Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> As the ordering in ftgmac100_remove() is:
> 
> 
>         if (priv->ndev)
>                 ncsi_unregister_dev(priv->ndev);
>         unregister_netdev(netdev);
> 
> which, is (I assume intentionally) symmetric with the _probe, which
> does:
> 
>                 priv->ndev = ncsi_register_dev(netdev, ftgmac100_ncsi_handler);
> 
>         /* ... */
> 
>         register_netdev(netdev)

To be clear - symmetric means mirror image.
I agree with Andrew.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-10-29 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-28  4:54 [PATCH net 0/2] net: ethernet: ftgmac100: fixes for ncsi/phy handling on device remove Jeremy Kerr
2024-10-28  4:54 ` [PATCH net 1/2] net: ethernet: ftgmac100: prevent use after free on unregister when using NCSI Jeremy Kerr
2024-10-28 18:33   ` Jacob Keller
2024-10-28 20:15   ` Andrew Lunn
2024-10-29  4:32     ` Jeremy Kerr
2024-10-29 12:37       ` Andrew Lunn
2024-10-29 14:10         ` Jeremy Kerr
2024-10-29 22:36       ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2024-10-30  0:29         ` Jeremy Kerr
2024-10-30  2:58           ` Jeremy Kerr
2024-10-30  9:02             ` Sam Mendoza-Jonas
2024-10-28  4:54 ` [PATCH net 2/2] net: ethernet: ftgmac100: fix NULL phy usage on device remove Jeremy Kerr
2024-10-28  5:58   ` 回覆: " Jacky Chou
2024-10-28 18:34   ` Jacob Keller
2024-10-28 20:23   ` Andrew Lunn
2024-10-29  4:36     ` Jeremy Kerr
2024-10-29 12:41       ` Andrew Lunn

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