netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ethtool: phy: Distinguish whether dev is got by phy start or doit

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Message-ID: <05580c1a-9652-4471-abd1-3d271fe844e8@stanley.mountain>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:38:44 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
To: oe-kbuild@...ts.linux.dev, Lizhi Xu <lizhi.xu@...driver.com>,
	syzbot+e9ed4e4368d450c8f9db@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: lkp@...el.com, oe-kbuild-all@...ts.linux.dev,
	christophe.leroy@...roup.eu, davem@...emloft.net,
	edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	pabeni@...hat.com, syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ethtool: phy: Distinguish whether dev is
 got by phy start or doit

Hi Lizhi,

kernel test robot noticed the following build warnings:

url:    https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Lizhi-Xu/net-ethtool-phy-Distinguish-whether-dev-is-got-by-phy-start-or-doit/20240913-160835
base:   net-next/main
patch link:    https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240913080714.1809254-1-lizhi.xu%40windriver.com
patch subject: [PATCH net-next] net: ethtool: phy: Distinguish whether dev is got by phy start or doit
config: x86_64-randconfig-r072-20240914 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20240916/202409161017.tjjHpXGT-lkp@intel.com/config)
compiler: clang version 18.1.8 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 3b5b5c1ec4a3095ab096dd780e84d7ab81f3d7ff)

If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
| Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202409161017.tjjHpXGT-lkp@intel.com/

smatch warnings:
net/ethtool/phy.c:235 ethnl_phy_start() error: dereferencing freed memory 'ctx->phy_req_info'

vim +235 net/ethtool/phy.c

17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  212  int ethnl_phy_start(struct netlink_callback *cb)
17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  213  {
17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  214  	const struct genl_info *info = genl_info_dump(cb);
17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  215  	struct ethnl_phy_dump_ctx *ctx = (void *)cb->ctx;
17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  216  	int ret;
17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  217  
17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  218  	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(*ctx) > sizeof(cb->ctx));
17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  219  
17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  220  	ctx->phy_req_info = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctx->phy_req_info), GFP_KERNEL);
17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  221  	if (!ctx->phy_req_info)
17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  222  		return -ENOMEM;
17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  223  
17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  224  	ret = ethnl_parse_header_dev_get(&ctx->phy_req_info->base,
17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  225  					 info->attrs[ETHTOOL_A_PHY_HEADER],
17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  226  					 sock_net(cb->skb->sk), cb->extack,
17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  227  					 false);
17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  228  	ctx->ifindex = 0;
17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  229  	ctx->phy_index = 0;
355b18bd0d5516 Lizhi Xu          2024-09-13  230  	ctx->phy_req_info->dev_start_doit = 0;
17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  231  
17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  232  	if (ret)
17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  233  		kfree(ctx->phy_req_info);
                                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Freed

17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  234  
355b18bd0d5516 Lizhi Xu          2024-09-13 @235  	if (ctx->phy_req_info->base.dev)
                                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Use after free

355b18bd0d5516 Lizhi Xu          2024-09-13  236  		ctx->phy_req_info->dev_start_doit = 1;
355b18bd0d5516 Lizhi Xu          2024-09-13  237  
17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  238  	return ret;
17194be4c8e1e8 Maxime Chevallier 2024-08-21  239  }

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