This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: macb: fix use after free on rmmod to the 5.4-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: net-macb-fix-use-after-free-on-rmmod.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit ab221aee6a81c0e68f3666693ca3d6f9b21bc4ee Author: Tong Zhang <ztong0001@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Sep 8 12:02:32 2021 -0700 net: macb: fix use after free on rmmod [ Upstream commit d82d5303c4c539db86588ffb5dc5b26c3f1513e8 ] plat_dev->dev->platform_data is released by platform_device_unregister(), use of pclk and hclk is a use-after-free. Since device unregister won't need a clk device we adjust the function call sequence to fix this issue. [ 31.261225] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in macb_remove+0x77/0xc6 [macb_pci] [ 31.275563] Freed by task 306: [ 30.276782] platform_device_release+0x25/0x80 Suggested-by: Nicolas Ferre <Nicolas.Ferre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tong Zhang <ztong0001@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_pci.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_pci.c index 617b3b728dd0..94f3babfad30 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_pci.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_pci.c @@ -112,9 +112,9 @@ static void macb_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev) struct platform_device *plat_dev = pci_get_drvdata(pdev); struct macb_platform_data *plat_data = dev_get_platdata(&plat_dev->dev); - platform_device_unregister(plat_dev); clk_unregister(plat_data->pclk); clk_unregister(plat_data->hclk); + platform_device_unregister(plat_dev); } static const struct pci_device_id dev_id_table[] = {