Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2014-10-30

Re: [patch] Bluetooth: 6lowpan: use after free in disconnect_devices()

From: Jukka Rissanen <hidden>
Date: 2014-10-30 07:54:41
Also in: kernel-janitors, linux-bluetooth, lkml

Hi Dan,

On ke, 2014-10-29 at 19:10 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
This was accidentally changed from list_for_each_entry_safe() to
list_for_each_entry() so now it has a use after free bug.  I've changed
it back.
Good catch! Thanks for the patch.

Acked-by: Jukka Rissanen <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Fixes: 90305829635d ('Bluetooth: 6lowpan: Converting rwlocks to use RCU')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <redacted>
diff --git a/net/bluetooth/6lowpan.c b/net/bluetooth/6lowpan.c
index 7254bdd..eef298d 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/6lowpan.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/6lowpan.c
@@ -1383,7 +1383,7 @@ static const struct file_operations lowpan_control_fops = {
 
 static void disconnect_devices(void)
 {
-	struct lowpan_dev *entry, *new_dev;
+	struct lowpan_dev *entry, *tmp, *new_dev;
 	struct list_head devices;
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&devices);
@@ -1408,7 +1408,7 @@ static void disconnect_devices(void)
 
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
-	list_for_each_entry(entry, &devices, list) {
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(entry, tmp, &devices, list) {
 		ifdown(entry->netdev);
 		BT_DBG("Unregistering netdev %s %p",
 		       entry->netdev->name, entry->netdev);
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Cheers,
Jukka
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