netdev - [PATCH net] net: sched: prevent a use after free

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Date:   Fri, 31 Jan 2020 09:56:47 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Cc:     Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Mohit Bhasi <mohitbhasi1998@...il.com>,
        "Mohit P. Tahiliani" <tahiliani@...k.edu.in>,
        "V. Saicharan" <vsaicharan1998@...il.com>,
        Gautam Ramakrishnan <gautamramk@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] net: sched: prevent a use after free

The code calls kfree_skb(skb); and then re-uses "skb" on the next line.
Let's re-order these lines to solve the problem.

Fixes: ec97ecf1ebe4 ("net: sched: add Flow Queue PIE packet scheduler")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
---
 net/sched/sch_fq_pie.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_fq_pie.c b/net/sched/sch_fq_pie.c
index bbd0dea6b6b9..78472e0773e9 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_fq_pie.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_fq_pie.c
@@ -349,9 +349,9 @@ static int fq_pie_change(struct Qdisc *sch, struct nlattr *opt,
 	while (sch->q.qlen > sch->limit) {
 		struct sk_buff *skb = fq_pie_qdisc_dequeue(sch);
 
-		kfree_skb(skb);
 		len_dropped += qdisc_pkt_len(skb);
 		num_dropped += 1;
+		kfree_skb(skb);
 	}
 	qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog(sch, num_dropped, len_dropped);
 
-- 
2.11.0