[PATCH net v1] rose: fix dangling neighbour pointers in rose_rt_device_down()
From: Kohei Enju <hidden>
Date: 2025-06-25 09:50:54
Also in:
linux-hams
Subsystem:
networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
There are two bugs in rose_rt_device_down() that can lead to use-after-free: 1. The loop bound `t->count` is modified within the loop, which can cause the loop to terminate early and miss some entries. 2. When removing an entry from the neighbour array, the subsequent entries are moved up to fill the gap, but the loop index `i` is still incremented, causing the next entry to be skipped. For example, if a node has three neighbours (A, B, A) and A is being removed: - 1st iteration (i=0): A is removed, array becomes (B, A, A), count=2 - 2nd iteration (i=1): We now check A instead of B, skipping B entirely - 3rd iteration (i=2): Loop terminates early due to count=2 This leaves the second A in the array with count=2, but the rose_neigh structure has been freed. Accessing code assumes that the first `count` entries are valid pointers, causing a use-after-free when it accesses the dangling pointer. Fix both issues by iterating over the array in reverse order with a fixed loop bound. This ensures that all entries are examined and that the removal of an entry doesn't affect the iteration of subsequent entries. Reported-by: syzbot+e04e2c007ba2c80476cb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=e04e2c007ba2c80476cb Tested-by: syzbot+e04e2c007ba2c80476cb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Kohei Enju <redacted> --- net/rose/rose_route.c | 16 ++++------------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/rose/rose_route.c b/net/rose/rose_route.c
index 2dd6bd3a3011..a488fd8c4710 100644
--- a/net/rose/rose_route.c
+++ b/net/rose/rose_route.c@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ void rose_rt_device_down(struct net_device *dev) { struct rose_neigh *s, *rose_neigh; struct rose_node *t, *rose_node; - int i; + int i, j; spin_lock_bh(&rose_node_list_lock); spin_lock_bh(&rose_neigh_list_lock);
@@ -497,22 +497,14 @@ void rose_rt_device_down(struct net_device *dev) t = rose_node; rose_node = rose_node->next; - for (i = 0; i < t->count; i++) { + for (i = t->count - 1; i >= 0; i--) { if (t->neighbour[i] != s) continue; t->count--; - switch (i) { - case 0: - t->neighbour[0] = t->neighbour[1]; - fallthrough; - case 1: - t->neighbour[1] = t->neighbour[2]; - break; - case 2: - break; - } + for (j = i; j < t->count; j++) + t->neighbour[j] = t->neighbour[j + 1]; } if (t->count <= 0)
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