netdev - [PATCH] rapidio/rionet: do not free skb before reading its length

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Date:   Wed, 28 Nov 2018 14:53:19 +0800
From:   Pan Bian <bianpan2016@....com>
To:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@....com>,
        Pan Bian <bianpan2016@....com>
Subject: [PATCH] rapidio/rionet: do not free skb before reading its length

skb is freed via dev_kfree_skb_any, however, skb->len is read then. This
may result in a use-after-free bug.

Fixes: e6161d64263 ("rapidio/rionet: rework driver initialization and removal")
Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@....com>
---
 drivers/net/rionet.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/rionet.c b/drivers/net/rionet.c
index e9f101c..bfbb39f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/rionet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/rionet.c
@@ -216,9 +216,9 @@ static int rionet_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
 			 * it just report sending a packet to the target
 			 * (without actual packet transfer).
 			 */
-			dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
 			ndev->stats.tx_packets++;
 			ndev->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
+			dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
 		}
 	}
 
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2.7.4