[PATCH v2] net: usb: fix possible use-after-free in smsc75xx_bind

From: Dongliang Mu
Date: Tue Jun 15 2021 - 22:48:50 EST


The commit 46a8b29c6306 ("net: usb: fix memory leak in smsc75xx_bind")
fails to clean up the work scheduled in smsc75xx_reset->
smsc75xx_set_multicast, which leads to use-after-free if the work is
scheduled to start after the deallocation. In addition, this patch
also removes a dangling pointer - dev->data[0].

This patch calls cancel_work_sync to cancel the scheduled work and set
the dangling pointer to NULL.

Fixes: 46a8b29c6306 ("net: usb: fix memory leak in smsc75xx_bind")
Signed-off-by: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v1->v2: split the err label into two labels - cancel_work and free_data
according to Pavel Skripkin; remove "pdata = NULL" according to gregkh
drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c b/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c
index b286993da67c..13141dbfa3a8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c
@@ -1483,7 +1483,7 @@ static int smsc75xx_bind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
ret = smsc75xx_wait_ready(dev, 0);
if (ret < 0) {
netdev_warn(dev->net, "device not ready in smsc75xx_bind\n");
- goto err;
+ goto free_pdata;
}

smsc75xx_init_mac_address(dev);
@@ -1492,7 +1492,7 @@ static int smsc75xx_bind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
ret = smsc75xx_reset(dev);
if (ret < 0) {
netdev_warn(dev->net, "smsc75xx_reset error %d\n", ret);
- goto err;
+ goto cancel_work;
}

dev->net->netdev_ops = &smsc75xx_netdev_ops;
@@ -1503,8 +1503,11 @@ static int smsc75xx_bind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
dev->net->max_mtu = MAX_SINGLE_PACKET_SIZE;
return 0;

-err:
+cancel_work:
+ cancel_work_sync(&pdata->set_multicast);
+free_pdata:
kfree(pdata);
+ dev->data[0] = 0;
return ret;
}

@@ -1515,7 +1518,6 @@ static void smsc75xx_unbind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
cancel_work_sync(&pdata->set_multicast);
netif_dbg(dev, ifdown, dev->net, "free pdata\n");
kfree(pdata);
- pdata = NULL;
dev->data[0] = 0;
}
}
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2.25.1