[Bridge] [PATCH net-next] bridge: Fix possible use-after-free when deleting bridge port
Mike Manning
mmanning at vyatta.att-mail.com
Mon Apr 22 17:24:23 UTC 2019
On 22/04/2019 10:44, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> On 22/04/2019 12:33, Ido Schimmel wrote:
>> When a bridge port is being deleted, do not dereference it later in
>> br_vlan_port_event() as it can result in a use-after-free [1] if the RCU
>> callback was executed before invoking the function.
>>
> [snip]
>> Fixes: 9c0ec2e7182a ("bridge: support binding vlan dev link state to vlan member bridge ports")
>> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch at mellanox.com>
>> Cc: Mike Manning <mmanning at vyatta.att-mail.com>
>> ---
>> net/bridge/br.c | 3 ++-
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/bridge/br.c b/net/bridge/br.c
>> index e69fc87a13e0..3c8e4b38f054 100644
>> --- a/net/bridge/br.c
>> +++ b/net/bridge/br.c
>> @@ -129,7 +129,8 @@ static int br_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused, unsigned long event, v
>> break;
>> }
>>
>> - br_vlan_port_event(p, event);
>> + if (event != NETDEV_UNREGISTER)
>> + br_vlan_port_event(p, event);
>>
>> /* Events that may cause spanning tree to refresh */
>> if (!notified && (event == NETDEV_CHANGEADDR || event == NETDEV_UP ||
>>
> Right, the br_del_if is just above. :)
>
> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay at cumulusnetworks.com>
Thanks for the fix, to avoid this I should have placed the check for the
br opt under the case handling in br_vlan_port_event().
Acked-by: Mike Manning <mmanning at vyatta.att-mail.com>
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