Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 3 authors, 2021-01-20

[net 1/3] can: dev: can_restart: fix use after free bug

From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Date: 2021-01-20 13:58:55
Also in: linux-can
Subsystem: can network drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Marc Kleine-Budde, Vincent Mailhol, Linus Torvalds

From: Vincent Mailhol <redacted>

After calling netif_rx_ni(skb), dereferencing skb is unsafe.
Especially, the can_frame cf which aliases skb memory is accessed
after the netif_rx_ni() in:
      stats->rx_bytes += cf->len;

Reordering the lines solves the issue.

Fixes: 39549eef3587 ("can: CAN Network device driver and Netlink interface")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210120114137.200019-2-mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr (local)
Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
---
 drivers/net/can/dev.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/can/dev.c b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
index 3486704c8a95..8b1ae023cb21 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
@@ -592,11 +592,11 @@ static void can_restart(struct net_device *dev)
 
 	cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_RESTARTED;
 
-	netif_rx_ni(skb);
-
 	stats->rx_packets++;
 	stats->rx_bytes += cf->len;
 
+	netif_rx_ni(skb);
+
 restart:
 	netdev_dbg(dev, "restarted\n");
 	priv->can_stats.restarts++;
base-commit: 9c30ae8398b0813e237bde387d67a7f74ab2db2d
-- 
2.29.2

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