5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org
[ Upstream commit 49c8d2c1f94cc2f4d1a108530d7ba52614b874c2 ]
commit efa95b01da18 ("netpoll: fix use after free") incorrectly ignored the refcount and prematurely set dev->npinfo to NULL during netpoll cleanup, leading to improper behavior and memory leaks.
Scenario causing lack of proper cleanup:
1) A netpoll is associated with a NIC (e.g., eth0) and netdev->npinfo is allocated, and refcnt = 1 - Keep in mind that npinfo is shared among all netpoll instances. In this case, there is just one.
2) Another netpoll is also associated with the same NIC and npinfo->refcnt += 1. - Now dev->npinfo->refcnt = 2; - There is just one npinfo associated to the netdev.
3) When the first netpolls goes to clean up: - The first cleanup succeeds and clears np->dev->npinfo, ignoring refcnt. - It basically calls `RCU_INIT_POINTER(np->dev->npinfo, NULL);` - Set dev->npinfo = NULL, without proper cleanup - No ->ndo_netpoll_cleanup() is either called
4) Now the second target tries to clean up - The second cleanup fails because np->dev->npinfo is already NULL. * In this case, ops->ndo_netpoll_cleanup() was never called, and the skb pool is not cleaned as well (for the second netpoll instance) - This leaks npinfo and skbpool skbs, which is clearly reported by kmemleak.
Revert commit efa95b01da18 ("netpoll: fix use after free") and adds clarifying comments emphasizing that npinfo cleanup should only happen once the refcount reaches zero, ensuring stable and correct netpoll behavior.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.17.x Cc: Jay Vosburgh jv@jvosburgh.net Fixes: efa95b01da18 ("netpoll: fix use after free") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org Reviewed-by: Simon Horman horms@kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107-netconsole_torture-v10-1-749227b55f63@debi... Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org [ Adjust context ] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/core/netpoll.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c +++ b/net/core/netpoll.c @@ -858,6 +858,10 @@ void __netpoll_cleanup(struct netpoll *n
synchronize_srcu(&netpoll_srcu);
+ /* At this point, there is a single npinfo instance per netdevice, and + * its refcnt tracks how many netpoll structures are linked to it. We + * only perform npinfo cleanup when the refcnt decrements to zero. + */ if (refcount_dec_and_test(&npinfo->refcnt)) { const struct net_device_ops *ops;
@@ -867,8 +871,7 @@ void __netpoll_cleanup(struct netpoll *n
RCU_INIT_POINTER(np->dev->npinfo, NULL); call_rcu(&npinfo->rcu, rcu_cleanup_netpoll_info); - } else - RCU_INIT_POINTER(np->dev->npinfo, NULL); + } } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__netpoll_cleanup);