linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] aoe: fix the potential use-after-free problem in more places

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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 19:00:41 +0800
From: joeyli <jlee@...e.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Chun-Yi Lee <joeyli.kernel@...il.com>,
	Justin Sanders <justin@...aid.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Nicolai Stange <nstange@...e.com>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] aoe: fix the potential use-after-free problem in more
 places

Hi Greg, 

On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 09:05:59AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 02:44:18PM +0800, Chun-Yi Lee wrote:
> > For fixing CVE-2023-6270, f98364e92662 ("aoe: fix the potential
> > use-after-free problem in aoecmd_cfg_pkts") makes tx() calling dev_put()
> > instead of doing in aoecmd_cfg_pkts(). It avoids that the tx() runs
> > into use-after-free.
> > 
> > Then Nicolai Stange found more places in aoe have potential use-after-free
> > problem with tx(). e.g. revalidate(), aoecmd_ata_rw(), resend(), probe()
> > and aoecmd_cfg_rsp(). Those functions also use aoenet_xmit() to push
> > packet to tx queue. So they should also use dev_hold() to increase the
> > refcnt of skb->dev.
> > 
> > Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6270
> > Fixes: f98364e92662 ("aoe: fix the potential use-after-free problem in aoecmd_cfg_pkts")
> > Reported-by: Nicolai Stange <nstange@...e.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Chun-Yi Lee <jlee@...e.com>
> > ---
> 
> <formletter>
> 
> This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
> stable kernel tree.  Please read:
>     https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
> for how to do this properly.
> 
> </formletter>

Thanks for your reminder. I will remove stable@...r.kernel.org in next version.

Joey Lee