4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit f6478218e6edc2a587b8f132f66373baa7b2497c ] When a parent macvlan device is destroyed we end up purging its broadcast queue without dropping the device reference count on the packet source device. This causes the source device to linger. This patch drops that reference count. Fixes: 260916dfb48c ("macvlan: Fix potential use-after free for...") Reported-by: Joe Ghalam <Joe.Ghalam@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/macvlan.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c @@ -1140,6 +1140,7 @@ static int macvlan_port_create(struct ne static void macvlan_port_destroy(struct net_device *dev) { struct macvlan_port *port = macvlan_port_get_rtnl(dev); + struct sk_buff *skb; dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_MACVLAN_PORT; netdev_rx_handler_unregister(dev); @@ -1148,7 +1149,15 @@ static void macvlan_port_destroy(struct * but we need to cancel it and purge left skbs if any. */ cancel_work_sync(&port->bc_work); - __skb_queue_purge(&port->bc_queue); + + while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&port->bc_queue))) { + const struct macvlan_dev *src = MACVLAN_SKB_CB(skb)->src; + + if (src) + dev_put(src->dev); + + kfree_skb(skb); + } kfree_rcu(port, rcu); }