This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tg3: Fix race condition in tg3_get_stats64(). to the 4.9-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: tg3-fix-race-condition-in-tg3_get_stats64.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Wed Aug 9 10:32:06 PDT 2017 From: Michael Chan <michael.chan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 16:18:53 -0500 Subject: tg3: Fix race condition in tg3_get_stats64(). From: Michael Chan <michael.chan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit f5992b72ebe0dde488fa8f706b887194020c66fc ] The driver's ndo_get_stats64() method is not always called under RTNL. So it can race with driver close or ethtool reconfigurations. Fix the race condition by taking tp->lock spinlock in tg3_free_consistent() when freeing the tp->hw_stats memory block. tg3_get_stats64() is already taking tp->lock. Reported-by: Wang Yufen <wangyufen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c @@ -8720,11 +8720,14 @@ static void tg3_free_consistent(struct t tg3_mem_rx_release(tp); tg3_mem_tx_release(tp); + /* Protect tg3_get_stats64() from reading freed tp->hw_stats. */ + tg3_full_lock(tp, 0); if (tp->hw_stats) { dma_free_coherent(&tp->pdev->dev, sizeof(struct tg3_hw_stats), tp->hw_stats, tp->stats_mapping); tp->hw_stats = NULL; } + tg3_full_unlock(tp); } /* Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from michael.chan@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/tg3-fix-race-condition-in-tg3_get_stats64.patch