On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 5:44 PM Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 03:56:32PM +0800, Dongliang Mu wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 3:38 PM Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 11:37:12PM +0800, Dongliang Mu wrote:
> > > > The commit 46a8b29c6306 ("net: usb: fix memory leak in smsc75xx_bind")
> > > > fails to clean up the work scheduled in smsc75xx_reset->
> > > > smsc75xx_set_multicast, which leads to use-after-free if the work is
> > > > scheduled to start after the deallocation. In addition, this patch also
> > > > removes one dangling pointer - dev->data[0].
> > > >
> > > > This patch calls cancel_work_sync to cancel the schedule work and set
> > > > the dangling pointer to NULL.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: 46a8b29c6306 ("net: usb: fix memory leak in smsc75xx_bind")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > > drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c | 3 +++
> > > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c b/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c
> > > > index b286993da67c..f81740fcc8d5 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c
> > > > @@ -1504,7 +1504,10 @@ static int smsc75xx_bind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
> > > > return 0;
> > > >
> > > > err:
> > > > + cancel_work_sync(&pdata->set_multicast);
> > > > kfree(pdata);
> > > > + pdata = NULL;
> > >
> > > Why do you have to set pdata to NULL afterward?
> > >
> >
> > It does not have to. pdata will be useless when the function exits. I
> > just referred to the implementation of smsc75xx_unbind.
>
> It's wrong there too :)
/: I will fix such two sites in the v2 patch.
