This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled team: fix possible null pointer dereference in team_handle_frame to the 3.14-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: team-fix-possible-null-pointer-dereference-in-team_handle_frame.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 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 Mar 11 11:43:33 CET 2015 From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 14:02:54 +0100 Subject: team: fix possible null pointer dereference in team_handle_frame From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 57e595631904c827cfa1a0f7bbd7cc9a49da5745 ] Currently following race is possible in team: CPU0 CPU1 team_port_del team_upper_dev_unlink priv_flags &= ~IFF_TEAM_PORT team_handle_frame team_port_get_rcu team_port_exists priv_flags & IFF_TEAM_PORT == 0 return NULL (instead of port got from rx_handler_data) netdev_rx_handler_unregister The thing is that the flag is removed before rx_handler is unregistered. If team_handle_frame is called in between, team_port_exists returns 0 and team_port_get_rcu will return NULL. So do not check the flag here. It is guaranteed by netdev_rx_handler_unregister that team_handle_frame will always see valid rx_handler_data pointer. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 3d249d4ca7d0 ("net: introduce ethernet teaming device") Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/team/team.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/team/team.c +++ b/drivers/net/team/team.c @@ -42,9 +42,7 @@ static struct team_port *team_port_get_rcu(const struct net_device *dev) { - struct team_port *port = rcu_dereference(dev->rx_handler_data); - - return team_port_exists(dev) ? port : NULL; + return rcu_dereference(dev->rx_handler_data); } static struct team_port *team_port_get_rtnl(const struct net_device *dev) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/team-don-t-traverse-port-list-using-rcu-in-team_set_mac_address.patch queue-3.14/team-fix-possible-null-pointer-dereference-in-team_handle_frame.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