From: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com
commit c6f6f2444bdbe0079e41914a35081530d0409963 upstream.
While looking at one unrelated syzbot bug, I found the replay logic in __rtnl_newlink() to potentially trigger use-after-free.
It is better to clear master_dev and m_ops inside the loop, in case we have to replay it.
Fixes: ba7d49b1f0f8 ("rtnetlink: provide api for getting and setting slave info") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com Cc: Jiri Pirko jiri@nvidia.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220201012106.216495-1-eric.dumazet@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -2942,9 +2942,9 @@ static int rtnl_newlink(struct sk_buff * { struct net *net = sock_net(skb->sk); const struct rtnl_link_ops *ops; - const struct rtnl_link_ops *m_ops = NULL; + const struct rtnl_link_ops *m_ops; struct net_device *dev; - struct net_device *master_dev = NULL; + struct net_device *master_dev; struct ifinfomsg *ifm; char kind[MODULE_NAME_LEN]; char ifname[IFNAMSIZ]; @@ -2979,6 +2979,8 @@ replay: dev = NULL; }
+ master_dev = NULL; + m_ops = NULL; if (dev) { master_dev = netdev_master_upper_dev_get(dev); if (master_dev)