From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel•org>
To: Dipayaan Roy <dipayanroy@linux•microsoft.com>
Cc: kys@microsoft•com, haiyangz@microsoft•com, wei.liu@kernel•org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net,v2] net: mana: fix use-after-free in mana_hwc_destroy_channel() by reordering teardown
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:40:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260313134003.GA461701@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <abHA3AjNtqa1nx9k@linuxonhyperv3.guj3yctzbm1etfxqx2vob5hsef.xx.internal.cloudapp.net>
On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 12:22:04PM -0700, Dipayaan Roy wrote:
> A potential race condition exists in mana_hwc_destroy_channel() where
> hwc->caller_ctx is freed before the HWC's Completion Queue (CQ) and
> Event Queue (EQ) are destroyed. This allows an in-flight CQ interrupt
> handler to dereference freed memory, leading to a use-after-free or
> NULL pointer dereference in mana_hwc_handle_resp().
>
> mana_smc_teardown_hwc() signals the hardware to stop but does not
> synchronize against IRQ handlers already executing on other CPUs. The
> IRQ synchronization only happens in mana_hwc_destroy_cq() via
> mana_gd_destroy_eq() -> mana_gd_deregister_irq(). Since this runs
> after kfree(hwc->caller_ctx), a concurrent mana_hwc_rx_event_handler()
> can dereference freed caller_ctx (and rxq->msg_buf) in
> mana_hwc_handle_resp().
>
> Fix this by reordering teardown to reverse-of-creation order: destroy
> the TX/RX work queues and CQ/EQ before freeing hwc->caller_ctx. This
> ensures all in-flight interrupt handlers complete before the memory they
> access is freed.
>
> Fixes: ca9c54d2d6a5 ("net: mana: Add a driver for Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA)")
> Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft•com>
> Signed-off-by: Dipayaan Roy <dipayanroy@linux•microsoft.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Added maintainers missed in v1.
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel•org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-13 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-11 19:22 [PATCH net,v2] net: mana: fix use-after-free in mana_hwc_destroy_channel() by reordering teardown Dipayaan Roy
2026-03-13 13:40 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2026-03-14 17:50 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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