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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-Renesas <linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org>,
	Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ipconfig: fix use after free
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 12:00:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdV=MsCUzuGJ76jWaw7kmMm7o1c3Dvpn50rCaJ2a7wS2iw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1470822257-13275-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

Hi Uwe,

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> ic_close_devs() calls kfree() for all devices's ic_device. Since commit
> 2647cffb2bc6 ("net: ipconfig: Support using "delayed" DHCP replies")
> the active device's ic_device is still used however to print the
> ipconfig summary which results in an oops if the memory is already
> changed. So delay freeing until after the autoconfig results are
> reported.

Thanks!

> Fixes: 2647cffb2bc6 ("net: ipconfig: Support using "delayed" DHCP replies")
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-10 10:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-09 10:02 Regression introduced by "net: ipconfig: Support using "delayed" DHCP replies" Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-08-09 10:18 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2016-08-09 12:30   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-08-10  9:44 ` [PATCH] net: ipconfig: fix use after free Uwe Kleine-König
2016-08-10 10:00   ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2016-08-10 21:55     ` David Miller

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