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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
To: Yan Burman <yanb@mellanox.com>
Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] net/mlx4: prevent potential use after free in mlx4_en_do_uc_filter()
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:25:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aNvMHX4g8RksFFvV@stanley.mountain> (raw)

Print "entry->mac" before freeing "entry".  The "entry" pointer is
freed with kfree_rcu() so it's unlikely that we would trigger this
in real life, but it's safer to re-order it.

Fixes: cc5387f7346a ("net/mlx4_en: Add unicast MAC filtering")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
index d2071aff7b8f..308b4458e0d4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
@@ -1180,9 +1180,9 @@ static void mlx4_en_do_uc_filter(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv,
 				mlx4_unregister_mac(mdev->dev, priv->port, mac);
 
 				hlist_del_rcu(&entry->hlist);
-				kfree_rcu(entry, rcu);
 				en_dbg(DRV, priv, "Removed MAC %pM on port:%d\n",
 				       entry->mac, priv->port);
+				kfree_rcu(entry, rcu);
 				++removed;
 			}
 		}
-- 
2.51.0


             reply	other threads:[~2025-09-30 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-30 12:25 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2025-09-30 17:57 ` [PATCH net] net/mlx4: prevent potential use after free in mlx4_en_do_uc_filter() Tariq Toukan
2025-10-03 18:00 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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