This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
igb: Do not free q_vector unless new one was allocated
to the 4.19-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:
igb-do-not-free-q_vector-unless-new-one-was-allocate.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 08fcb24a4e311d89644e6eb5e7ed3bbaa33d1951
Author: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Oct 18 02:25:24 2022 -0700
igb: Do not free q_vector unless new one was allocated
[ Upstream commit 0668716506ca66f90d395f36ccdaebc3e0e84801 ]
Avoid potential use-after-free condition under memory pressure. If the
kzalloc() fails, q_vector will be freed but left in the original
adapter->q_vector[v_idx] array position.
Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: intel-wired-lan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Michael J. Ruhl <michael.j.ruhl@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Gurucharan <gurucharanx.g@xxxxxxxxx> (A Contingent worker at Intel)
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
index 3d2dd15859cb..87f98170ac93 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -1211,8 +1211,12 @@ static int igb_alloc_q_vector(struct igb_adapter *adapter,
if (!q_vector) {
q_vector = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
} else if (size > ksize(q_vector)) {
- kfree_rcu(q_vector, rcu);
- q_vector = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ struct igb_q_vector *new_q_vector;
+
+ new_q_vector = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (new_q_vector)
+ kfree_rcu(q_vector, rcu);
+ q_vector = new_q_vector;
} else {
memset(q_vector, 0, size);
}
