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From: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>
To: intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, magnus.karlsson@intel.com,
	kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org,
	przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com, jacob.e.keller@intel.com,
	Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 net 5/7] i40e: fix potential UAF in i40e_vsi_setup()'s error path
Date: Wed,  1 Jul 2026 14:45:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260701124524.13644-6-maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260701124524.13644-1-maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>

Sashiko pointed out an issue where error path in i40e_vsi_reinit_setup()
released ring memory but then when freeing q_vectors, the rings mapped
to q_vectors where touched which implies a regular use-after-free bug.

Apparently i40e_vsi_setup() has the same problem, so swap the allocation
and freeing order and fix the 13 year old bug.

Fixes: 41c445ff0f48 ("i40e: main driver core")
Signed-off-by: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
index e88cf7cfbd84..fcdd13af08ea 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
@@ -14466,14 +14466,14 @@ struct i40e_vsi *i40e_vsi_setup(struct i40e_pf *pf, u8 type,
 		fallthrough;
 	case I40E_VSI_FDIR:
 		/* set up vectors and rings if needed */
-		ret = i40e_vsi_setup_vectors(vsi);
-		if (ret)
-			goto err_msix;
-
 		ret = i40e_alloc_rings(vsi);
 		if (ret)
 			goto err_rings;
 
+		ret = i40e_vsi_setup_vectors(vsi);
+		if (ret)
+			goto err_qvec;
+
 		/* map all of the rings to the q_vectors */
 		i40e_vsi_map_rings_to_vectors(vsi);
 
@@ -14493,10 +14493,10 @@ struct i40e_vsi *i40e_vsi_setup(struct i40e_pf *pf, u8 type,
 	return vsi;
 
 err_config:
+	i40e_vsi_free_q_vectors(vsi);
+err_qvec:
 	i40e_vsi_clear_rings(vsi);
 err_rings:
-	i40e_vsi_free_q_vectors(vsi);
-err_msix:
 	if (vsi->netdev_registered) {
 		vsi->netdev_registered = false;
 		unregister_netdev(vsi->netdev);
-- 
2.43.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-01 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-01 12:45 [PATCH v5 net 0/7] i40e: re-init and UAF fixes Maciej Fijalkowski
2026-07-01 12:45 ` [PATCH v5 net 1/7] i40e: unregister netdev before clearing VSI on reinit failure Maciej Fijalkowski
2026-07-01 12:45 ` [PATCH v5 net 2/7] i40e: avoid null ptr dereference in i40e_ptp_stop() Maciej Fijalkowski
2026-07-01 12:45 ` [PATCH v5 net 3/7] i40e: make ring pointers unreachable before freeing via rcu Maciej Fijalkowski
2026-07-01 12:45 ` [PATCH v5 net 4/7] i40e: avoid deadlock when calling unregister_netdev() Maciej Fijalkowski
2026-07-01 12:45 ` Maciej Fijalkowski [this message]
2026-07-01 12:45 ` [PATCH v5 net 6/7] i40e: do not expose netdev too early Maciej Fijalkowski
2026-07-01 12:45 ` [PATCH v5 net 7/7] i40e: keep q_vectors array in sync with channel count changes Maciej Fijalkowski

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