This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled 8021q: fix a potential use-after-free to the 3.0-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: 8021q-fix-a-potential-use-after-free.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 5df252fbe8f672a24dc75dc5ce5d0c5f8532f105 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cong Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:14:07 +0000 Subject: 8021q: fix a potential use-after-free From: Cong Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 4a7df340ed1bac190c124c1601bfc10cde9fb4fb ] vlan_vid_del() could possibly free ->vlan_info after a RCU grace period, however, we may still refer to the freed memory area by 'grp' pointer. Found by code inspection. This patch moves vlan_vid_del() as behind as possible. Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/8021q/vlan.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/net/8021q/vlan.c +++ b/net/8021q/vlan.c @@ -108,13 +108,6 @@ void unregister_vlan_dev(struct net_devi grp = rtnl_dereference(real_dev->vlgrp); BUG_ON(!grp); - /* Take it out of our own structures, but be sure to interlock with - * HW accelerating devices or SW vlan input packet processing if - * VLAN is not 0 (leave it there for 802.1p). - */ - if (vlan_id && (real_dev->features & NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER)) - ops->ndo_vlan_rx_kill_vid(real_dev, vlan_id); - grp->nr_vlans--; if (vlan->flags & VLAN_FLAG_GVRP) @@ -139,6 +132,13 @@ void unregister_vlan_dev(struct net_devi call_rcu(&grp->rcu, vlan_rcu_free); } + /* Take it out of our own structures, but be sure to interlock with + * HW accelerating devices or SW vlan input packet processing if + * VLAN is not 0 (leave it there for 802.1p). + */ + if (vlan_id && (real_dev->features & NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER)) + ops->ndo_vlan_rx_kill_vid(real_dev, vlan_id); + /* Get rid of the vlan's reference to real_dev */ dev_put(real_dev); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from amwang@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.0/8021q-fix-a-potential-use-after-free.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html