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authortom.leiming@gmail.com <tom.leiming@gmail.com>2012-03-21 23:22:18 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-04-02 12:27:17 -0400
commit27c3e5f205c085075547cb376bdae37693bd7090 (patch)
tree5ad033404f5033a6052cad80e93abed06a638a7e /drivers/net/usb
parent77d77ab09b1b57cf3cc30d0dbdf8c55137146a8f (diff)
usbnet: increase URB reference count before usb_unlink_urb
commit 0956a8c20b23d429e79ff86d4325583fc06f9eb4 upstream. Commit 4231d47e6fe69f061f96c98c30eaf9fb4c14b96d(net/usbnet: avoid recursive locking in usbnet_stop()) fixes the recursive locking problem by releasing the skb queue lock, but it makes usb_unlink_urb racing with defer_bh, and the URB to being unlinked may be freed before or during calling usb_unlink_urb, so use-after-free problem may be triggerd inside usb_unlink_urb. The patch fixes the use-after-free problem by increasing URB reference count with skb queue lock held before calling usb_unlink_urb, so the URB won't be freed until return from usb_unlink_urb. Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/usb')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
index 4918cf54c47..9f9e5876bdf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
@@ -585,6 +585,14 @@ static int unlink_urbs (struct usbnet *dev, struct sk_buff_head *q)
585 entry = (struct skb_data *) skb->cb; 585 entry = (struct skb_data *) skb->cb;
586 urb = entry->urb; 586 urb = entry->urb;
587 587
588 /*
589 * Get reference count of the URB to avoid it to be
590 * freed during usb_unlink_urb, which may trigger
591 * use-after-free problem inside usb_unlink_urb since
592 * usb_unlink_urb is always racing with .complete
593 * handler(include defer_bh).
594 */
595 usb_get_urb(urb);
588 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags); 596 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags);
589 // during some PM-driven resume scenarios, 597 // during some PM-driven resume scenarios,
590 // these (async) unlinks complete immediately 598 // these (async) unlinks complete immediately
@@ -593,6 +601,7 @@ static int unlink_urbs (struct usbnet *dev, struct sk_buff_head *q)
593 netdev_dbg(dev->net, "unlink urb err, %d\n", retval); 601 netdev_dbg(dev->net, "unlink urb err, %d\n", retval);
594 else 602 else
595 count++; 603 count++;
604 usb_put_urb(urb);
596 spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags); 605 spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags);
597 } 606 }
598 spin_unlock_irqrestore (&q->lock, flags); 607 spin_unlock_irqrestore (&q->lock, flags);