netdev - Re: [PATCH v4] net: ravb: Fix possible UAF bug in ravb

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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 20:19:52 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Zheng Wang <zyytlz.wz@....com>
Cc: s.shtylyov@....ru, lee@...nel.org, linyunsheng@...wei.com,
 davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, pabeni@...hat.com,
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 biju.das.jz@...renesas.com, wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] net: ravb: Fix possible UAF bug in ravb_remove

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 11:00:26 +0800 Zheng Wang wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
> index 4d6b3b7d6abb..ce2da5101e51 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
> @@ -2885,6 +2885,9 @@ static int ravb_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	struct ravb_private *priv = netdev_priv(ndev);
>  	const struct ravb_hw_info *info = priv->info;
>  
> +	netif_carrier_off(ndev);
> +	netif_tx_disable(ndev);
> +	cancel_work_sync(&priv->work);

Still racy, the carrier can come back up after canceling the work.
But whatever, this is a non-issue in the first place.
The fact that ravb_tx_timeout_work doesn't take any locks seems much
more suspicious.