[PATCH] amt: fix use-after-free in AMT delayed works
From: Shihuang Liu <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-14 07:28:06
Also in:
lkml, stable
Subsystem:
amt (automatic multicast tunneling), networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Taehee Yoo, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
When an AMT device is removed, pending delayed works can still access
the freed amt_dev structure, which may result in kernel crashes or
memory corruption.
amt_dev_stop() cancels req_wq and discovery_wq with
cancel_delayed_work_sync(), but these works can be scheduled again
from event_wq after the cancellation. This allows delayed works to
access the freed amt_dev structure after the netdev has been released.
The following is a simple race scenario:
CPU0 CPU1
amt_dev_stop()
cancel_delayed_work_sync()
amt_event_work()
mod_delayed_work(req_wq)
free netdev
req_wq accesses freed amt_dev
Use disable_delayed_work_sync() in amt_dev_stop() to prevent req_wq and
discovery_wq from being queued again and wait for running work items
to complete.
The delayed works are disabled after initialization in
amt_newlink() and enabled only when the device is successfully opened.
This keeps the delayed work lifecycle synchronized with the lifetime
of the AMT device.
Fixes: cbc21dc1cfe9 ("amt: add data plane of amt interface")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Shihuang Liu <redacted>
---
drivers/net/amt.c | 14 +++++++++++---
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/amt.c b/drivers/net/amt.c
index 951dd10e192b..7eb871b9b7e1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/amt.c
+++ b/drivers/net/amt.c@@ -2995,9 +2995,15 @@ static int amt_dev_open(struct net_device *dev) amt->event_idx = 0; amt->nr_events = 0; + enable_delayed_work(&amt->discovery_wq); + enable_delayed_work(&amt->req_wq); + err = amt_socket_create(amt); - if (err) + if (err) { + disable_delayed_work(&amt->req_wq); + disable_delayed_work(&amt->discovery_wq); return err; + } amt->req_cnt = 0; amt->remote_ip = 0;
@@ -3023,8 +3029,8 @@ static int amt_dev_stop(struct net_device *dev) struct sock *sk; int i; - cancel_delayed_work_sync(&amt->req_wq); - cancel_delayed_work_sync(&amt->discovery_wq); + disable_delayed_work_sync(&amt->req_wq); + disable_delayed_work_sync(&amt->discovery_wq); cancel_delayed_work_sync(&amt->secret_wq); /* shutdown */
@@ -3278,6 +3284,8 @@ static int amt_newlink(struct net_device *dev, INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&amt->req_wq, amt_req_work); INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&amt->secret_wq, amt_secret_work); INIT_WORK(&amt->event_wq, amt_event_work); + disable_delayed_work(&amt->req_wq); + disable_delayed_work(&amt->discovery_wq); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&amt->tunnel_list); return 0; err:
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2.43.0