[PATCH] net: natsemi: ns83820: Fix use-after-free in ns83820_remove_one due to race condition
From: Pei Xiao <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-04 02:38:29
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Subsystem:
networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
In ns83820_init_one, &dev->tq_refill is bound with queue_refill, and
ns83820_rx_kick can schedule this work on system_wq when it is called
from the IRQ handler ns83820_irq (via ns83820_do_isr) or from the rx
tasklet rx_action.
If we remove the device, ns83820_remove_one makes cleanup and the
memory allocated for dev with netdev_priv() is released by
free_netdev(), while the work mentioned above may still be pending or
running. The sequence of operations that may lead to a UAF bug is as
follows:
CPU0 CPU1
| ns83820_irq
| ns83820_do_isr
| ns83820_rx_kick
| schedule_work(&dev->tq_refill)
ns83820_remove_one |
ns83820_disable_interrupts(dev) |
unregister_netdev(ndev) |
free_irq(dev->pci_dev->irq, ndev) |
iounmap(dev->base) |
dma_free_coherent(...) |
free_netdev(ndev) |
// dev is freed |
| queue_refill
| // use dev (use-after-free)
Fix it by canceling the work after the sources that can schedule it
(IRQ handler and rx tasklet, both via ns83820_rx_kick) have been
stopped, and before proceeding with the remaining cleanup in
ns83820_remove_one.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Assisted-by: Codex:deepseek-v4-flash
Signed-off-by: Pei Xiao <redacted>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/natsemi/ns83820.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/natsemi/ns83820.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/natsemi/ns83820.c
index cdbf82affa7b..0e862e7770a9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/natsemi/ns83820.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/natsemi/ns83820.c@@ -2209,6 +2209,9 @@ static void ns83820_remove_one(struct pci_dev *pci_dev) unregister_netdev(ndev); free_irq(dev->pci_dev->irq, ndev); + + cancel_work_sync(&dev->tq_refill); + iounmap(dev->base); dma_free_coherent(&dev->pci_dev->dev, 4 * DESC_SIZE * NR_TX_DESC, dev->tx_descs, dev->tx_phy_descs);
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