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 3.8-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-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From c82e2350e15cc63b5cfb3b40a60a337138d9d046 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
@@ -86,13 +86,6 @@ void unregister_vlan_dev(struct net_devi
grp = &vlan_info->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)
- vlan_vid_del(real_dev, vlan_id);
-
grp->nr_vlan_devs--;
if (vlan->flags & VLAN_FLAG_GVRP)
@@ -108,6 +101,13 @@ void unregister_vlan_dev(struct net_devi
if (grp->nr_vlan_devs == 0)
vlan_gvrp_uninit_applicant(real_dev);
+ /* 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)
+ vlan_vid_del(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-3.8/8021q-fix-a-potential-use-after-free.patch
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