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authorSantosh Kalluri <santosh.kalluri129@gmail.com>2026-06-17 10:49:18 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2026-07-04 13:39:41 +0200
commit6cd7067d6e4b0b2033ba2f918ecbd54dc2af3763 (patch)
tree3aee4c121c8092fdde84de3b5fe197d065573cb8
parent53700a63768ca43bd6e3d2798738fcc32f44e21b (diff)
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net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period
[ Upstream commit 71de0177b28da751f407581a4515cf4d762f6296 ] phonet_device_destroy() removes a phonet_device from the per-net device list with list_del_rcu(), but frees it immediately. RCU readers walking the same list can still hold a pointer to the object after it has been removed, leading to a slab-use-after-free. Use kfree_rcu(), matching the lifetime rule already used by phonet_address_del() for the same object type. Fixes: eeb74a9d45f7 ("Phonet: convert devices list to RCU") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Santosh Kalluri <santosh.kalluri129@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi@remlab.net> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--net/phonet/pn_dev.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/phonet/pn_dev.c b/net/phonet/pn_dev.c
index 2e7d850dc726..3f020c362d6c 100644
--- a/net/phonet/pn_dev.c
+++ b/net/phonet/pn_dev.c
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ static void phonet_device_destroy(struct net_device *dev)
for_each_set_bit(addr, pnd->addrs, 64)
phonet_address_notify(net, RTM_DELADDR, ifindex, addr);
- kfree(pnd);
+ kfree_rcu(pnd, rcu);
}
}