Hello Radu,
> From: Radu Rendec, Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2024 6:09 AM
>
> The use-after-free is actually in rswitch_tx_free(), which is inlined in
> rswitch_poll(). Since `skb` and `gq->skbs[gq->dirty]` are in fact the
> same pointer, the skb is first freed using dev_kfree_skb_any(), then the
> value in skb->len is used to update the interface statistics.
>
> Let's move around the instructions to use skb->len before the skb is
> freed.
>
> This bug is trivial to reproduce using KFENCE. It will trigger a splat
> every few packets. A simple ARP request or ICMP echo request is enough.
>
> Signed-off-by: Radu Rendec <rrendec@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thank you very much for your patch!
Reviewed-by: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Best regards,
Yoshihiro Shimoda
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rswitch.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rswitch.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rswitch.c
> index dcab638c57fe8..24c90d8f5a442 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rswitch.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rswitch.c
> @@ -871,13 +871,13 @@ static void rswitch_tx_free(struct net_device *ndev)
> dma_rmb();
> skb = gq->skbs[gq->dirty];
> if (skb) {
> + rdev->ndev->stats.tx_packets++;
> + rdev->ndev->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
> dma_unmap_single(ndev->dev.parent,
> gq->unmap_addrs[gq->dirty],
> skb->len, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
> dev_kfree_skb_any(gq->skbs[gq->dirty]);
> gq->skbs[gq->dirty] = NULL;
> - rdev->ndev->stats.tx_packets++;
> - rdev->ndev->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
> }
> desc->desc.die_dt = DT_EEMPTY;
> }
> --
> 2.45.2
