This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bonding: init notify_work earlier to avoid uninitialized use to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: bonding-init-notify_work-earlier-to-avoid-uninitiali.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 6fe471664a7cfe679e0a849f06c823789b7b0dd4 Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon May 17 16:13:35 2021 +0200 bonding: init notify_work earlier to avoid uninitialized use [ Upstream commit 35d96e631860226d5dc4de0fad0a415362ec2457 ] If bond_kobj_init() or later kzalloc() in bond_alloc_slave() fail, then we call kobject_put() on the slave->kobj. This in turn calls the release function slave_kobj_release() which will always try to cancel_delayed_work_sync(&slave->notify_work), which shouldn't be done on an uninitialized work struct. Always initialize the work struct earlier to avoid problems here. Syzbot bisected this down to a completely pointless commit, some fault injection may have been at work here that caused the alloc failure in the first place, which may interact badly with bisect. Reported-by: syzbot+bfda097c12a00c8cae67@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c index 16437aa35bc4..2b721ed392ad 100644 --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c @@ -1280,6 +1280,7 @@ static struct slave *bond_alloc_slave(struct bonding *bond, slave->bond = bond; slave->dev = slave_dev; + INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&slave->notify_work, bond_netdev_notify_work); if (bond_kobj_init(slave)) return NULL; @@ -1292,7 +1293,6 @@ static struct slave *bond_alloc_slave(struct bonding *bond, return NULL; } } - INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&slave->notify_work, bond_netdev_notify_work); return slave; }