netdev - [PATCH] net/usb: cancel pending work when unbinding smsc75xx

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 28 Sep 2018 17:04:30 -0600
From:   Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
To:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@...well.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net/usb: cancel pending work when unbinding smsc75xx

Cancel pending work before freeing smsc75xx private data structure
during binding. This fixes the following crash in the driver:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000050
IP: mutex_lock+0x2b/0x3f
<snipped>
Workqueue: events smsc75xx_deferred_multicast_write [smsc75xx]
task: ffff8caa83e85700 task.stack: ffff948b80518000
RIP: 0010:mutex_lock+0x2b/0x3f
<snipped>
Call Trace:
 smsc75xx_deferred_multicast_write+0x40/0x1af [smsc75xx]
 process_one_work+0x18d/0x2fc
 worker_thread+0x1a2/0x269
 ? pr_cont_work+0x58/0x58
 kthread+0xfa/0x10a
 ? pr_cont_work+0x58/0x58
 ? rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace+0x48/0x48
 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x40

Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
---
 drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c b/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c
index 05553d252446..b64b1ee56d2d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c
@@ -1517,6 +1517,7 @@ static void smsc75xx_unbind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
 {
 	struct smsc75xx_priv *pdata = (struct smsc75xx_priv *)(dev->data[0]);
 	if (pdata) {
+		cancel_work_sync(&pdata->set_multicast);
 		netif_dbg(dev, ifdown, dev->net, "free pdata\n");
 		kfree(pdata);
 		pdata = NULL;
-- 
2.19.0.605.g01d371f741-goog