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[PATCH] net: fddi: fix UAF in fza_probe

From: Pavel Skripkin <hidden>
Date: 2021-07-13 10:59:02
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Subsystem: defza fddi network driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: "Maciej W. Rozycki", Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

fp is netdev private data and it cannot be
used after free_netdev() call. Using fp after free_netdev()
can cause UAF bug. Fix it by moving free_netdev() after error message.

Fixes: 61414f5ec983 ("FDDI: defza: Add support for DEC FDDIcontroller 700
TURBOchannel adapter")
Signed-off-by: Pavel Skripkin <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/fddi/defza.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/fddi/defza.c b/drivers/net/fddi/defza.c
index 14f07050b6b1..0de2c4552f5e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/fddi/defza.c
+++ b/drivers/net/fddi/defza.c
@@ -1504,9 +1504,8 @@ static int fza_probe(struct device *bdev)
 	release_mem_region(start, len);
 
 err_out_kfree:
-	free_netdev(dev);
-
 	pr_err("%s: initialization failure, aborting!\n", fp->name);
+	free_netdev(dev);
 	return ret;
 }
 
-- 
2.32.0
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