On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM Takamitsu Iwai [off-list ref] wrote:

The 'use' field in struct rose_neigh is used as a reference counter but
lacks atomicity. This can lead to race conditions where a rose_neigh
structure is freed while still being referenced by other code paths.

For example, when rose_neigh->use becomes zero during an ioctl operation
via rose_rt_ioctl(), the structure may be removed while its timer is
still active, potentially causing use-after-free issues.

This patch changes the type of 'use' from unsigned short to refcount_t and
updates all code paths to use rose_neigh_hold() and rose_neigh_put() which
operate reference counts atomically.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Takamitsu Iwai <redacted>

Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>