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authorIdo Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>2026-06-29 10:21:17 +0300
committerPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>2026-06-30 15:14:35 +0200
commit2a00517db8de4be7df3d483b215c5544fb30a191 (patch)
treeba59a665168c011885462079eac2977b095aa898 /net
parente5b811fe793166aecc59b085c1b7c31262ef2316 (diff)
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bridge: stp: Fix a potential use-after-free when deleting a bridge
The three STP timers are not supposed to be armed while the bridge is administratively down. They are synchronously deactivated when the bridge is put administratively down and the various call sites check for 'IFF_UP' before arming them. This check is missing from br_topology_change_detection() and it is possible to engineer a situation in which the topology change timer is armed while the bridge is administratively down, resulting in a use-after-free [1] when the bridge is deleted. Fix by adding the missing check and for good measures synchronously shutdown the three timers when the bridge is deleted. [1] ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object: ffff88811662b9b0 object type: timer_list hint: br_topology_change_timer_expired (net/bridge/br_stp_timer.c:120) WARNING: lib/debugobjects.c:629 at debug_print_object+0x1bc/0x450, CPU#9: ip/359 Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Reported-by: Noam Rathaus <noamr@ssd-disclosure.com> Reported-by: Neil Young <contact@ssd-disclosure.com> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260629072117.497959-1-idosch@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/bridge/br_if.c3
-rw-r--r--net/bridge/br_stp.c3
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_if.c b/net/bridge/br_if.c
index 7ed19aa8ae59..c52613431f88 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_if.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_if.c
@@ -392,6 +392,9 @@ void br_dev_delete(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head)
br_fdb_delete_by_port(br, NULL, 0, 1);
+ timer_shutdown_sync(&br->hello_timer);
+ timer_shutdown_sync(&br->topology_change_timer);
+ timer_shutdown_sync(&br->tcn_timer);
cancel_delayed_work_sync(&br->gc_work);
br_sysfs_delbr(br->dev);
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_stp.c b/net/bridge/br_stp.c
index 46919d73d42f..c7e7e924f155 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_stp.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_stp.c
@@ -382,7 +382,8 @@ void br_topology_change_detection(struct net_bridge *br)
{
int isroot = br_is_root_bridge(br);
- if (br->stp_enabled != BR_KERNEL_STP)
+ if (br->stp_enabled != BR_KERNEL_STP ||
+ !(br->dev->flags & IFF_UP))
return;
br_info(br, "topology change detected, %s\n",