This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: elx: libefc: Fix potential use after free in efc_nport_vport_del() to the 5.15-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: scsi-elx-libefc-fix-potential-use-after-free-in-efc_.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit c3214f802860963cb0eacf7635f0a44156b4afe0 Author: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Aug 15 14:29:05 2024 +0300 scsi: elx: libefc: Fix potential use after free in efc_nport_vport_del() [ Upstream commit 2e4b02fad094976763af08fec2c620f4f8edd9ae ] The kref_put() function will call nport->release if the refcount drops to zero. The nport->release release function is _efc_nport_free() which frees "nport". But then we dereference "nport" on the next line which is a use after free. Re-order these lines to avoid the use after free. Fixes: fcd427303eb9 ("scsi: elx: libefc: SLI and FC PORT state machine interfaces") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b666ab26-6581-4213-9a3d-32a9147f0399@stanley.mountain Reviewed-by: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/elx/libefc/efc_nport.c b/drivers/scsi/elx/libefc/efc_nport.c index 2e83a667901fe..1a7437f4328e8 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/elx/libefc/efc_nport.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/elx/libefc/efc_nport.c @@ -705,9 +705,9 @@ efc_nport_vport_del(struct efc *efc, struct efc_domain *domain, spin_lock_irqsave(&efc->lock, flags); list_for_each_entry(nport, &domain->nport_list, list_entry) { if (nport->wwpn == wwpn && nport->wwnn == wwnn) { - kref_put(&nport->ref, nport->release); /* Shutdown this NPORT */ efc_sm_post_event(&nport->sm, EFC_EVT_SHUTDOWN, NULL); + kref_put(&nport->ref, nport->release); break; } }