This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: dpaa2-eth: fix use-after-free in dpaa2_eth_remove
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-dpaa2-eth-fix-use-after-free-in-dpaa2_eth_remove.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 88349911af34bcac3fc4110212b9f04d65641fe5
Author: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Nov 16 18:17:12 2021 +0300
net: dpaa2-eth: fix use-after-free in dpaa2_eth_remove
[ Upstream commit 9b5a333272a48c2f8b30add7a874e46e8b26129c ]
Access to netdev after free_netdev() will cause use-after-free bug.
Move debug log before free_netdev() call to avoid it.
Fixes: 7472dd9f6499 ("staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Move print message")
Signed-off-by: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c
index 7af7cc7c8669a..34540e604f748 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c
@@ -3616,10 +3616,10 @@ static int dpaa2_eth_remove(struct fsl_mc_device *ls_dev)
fsl_mc_portal_free(priv->mc_io);
- free_netdev(net_dev);
-
dev_dbg(net_dev->dev.parent, "Removed interface %s\n", net_dev->name);
+ free_netdev(net_dev);
+
return 0;
}
