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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>
To: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft•com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft•com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft•com>,
	"driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject•org"
	<driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject•org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netvsc: fix use-after-free in netvsc_change_mtu()
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 09:06:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170302090652.2e9e4471@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MWHPR03MB266949159A2BCA01B5EBB778BF280@MWHPR03MB2669.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>

On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 13:00:53 +0000
Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft•com> wrote:

> 'nvdev' is freed in rndis_filter_device_remove -> netvsc_device_remove ->
> free_netvsc_device, so we mustn't access it, before it's re-created in
> rndis_filter_device_add -> netvsc_device_add.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft•com>
> Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft•com>
> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft•com>
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft•com>

Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft•com>

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-02 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-02 13:00 [PATCH] netvsc: fix use-after-free in netvsc_change_mtu() Dexuan Cui
2017-03-02 17:06 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-03-02 22:43 ` David Miller

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