From: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru•mvista.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel•org>
Cc: Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel•crashing.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik•org>,
netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] net/phy/fixed.c: fix a use-after-free
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 17:21:23 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080203142123.GA6573@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080202211502.GC9375@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 11:15:02PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch fixes a use-after-free introduced by
> commit a79d8e93d300adb84cccc38ac396cfb118c238ad and spotted by the
> Coverity checker.
Nice catch.
We didn't encounter this bug because fixed.c is bool, so
module_exit isn't used. Thus, technically, we can remove it
completely.
But I prefer your patch, because later, we might want to create
library versions of the fixed_mdio_bus_{init,exit}. To use, for
example, with PCI ethernet card that might have MDIO-less PHY,
i.e. configuration is hardwired in the eeprom, but driver still
want to use phylib framework.
Thanks,
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel•org>
>
> ---
> 20c51455b2faed63c3026fd4d7139e5a6a917d31
> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/fixed.c b/drivers/net/phy/fixed.c
> index 73b6d39..ca9b040 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/phy/fixed.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/fixed.c
> @@ -236,12 +236,12 @@ module_init(fixed_mdio_bus_init);
> static void __exit fixed_mdio_bus_exit(void)
> {
> struct fixed_mdio_bus *fmb = &platform_fmb;
> - struct fixed_phy *fp;
> + struct fixed_phy *fp, *tmp;
>
> mdiobus_unregister(&fmb->mii_bus);
> platform_device_unregister(pdev);
>
> - list_for_each_entry(fp, &fmb->phys, node) {
> + list_for_each_entry_safe(fp, tmp, &fmb->phys, node) {
> list_del(&fp->node);
> kfree(fp);
> }
>
>
--
Anton Vorontsov
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2008-02-02 21:15 [2.6 patch] net/phy/fixed.c: fix a use-after-free Adrian Bunk
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