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8021q: fix a potential use-after-free

vlan_vid_del() could possibly free ->vlan_info after a RCU grace
period, however, we may still refer to the freed memory area
by 'grp' pointer. Found by code inspection.

This patch moves vlan_vid_del() as behind as possible.

Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cong Wang 12 years ago
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1 changed files with 7 additions and 7 deletions
  1. 7 7
      net/8021q/vlan.c

+ 7 - 7
net/8021q/vlan.c

@@ -86,13 +86,6 @@ void unregister_vlan_dev(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head)
 
 	grp = &vlan_info->grp;
 
-	/* Take it out of our own structures, but be sure to interlock with
-	 * HW accelerating devices or SW vlan input packet processing if
-	 * VLAN is not 0 (leave it there for 802.1p).
-	 */
-	if (vlan_id)
-		vlan_vid_del(real_dev, vlan_id);
-
 	grp->nr_vlan_devs--;
 
 	if (vlan->flags & VLAN_FLAG_MVRP)
@@ -114,6 +107,13 @@ void unregister_vlan_dev(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head)
 		vlan_gvrp_uninit_applicant(real_dev);
 	}
 
+	/* Take it out of our own structures, but be sure to interlock with
+	 * HW accelerating devices or SW vlan input packet processing if
+	 * VLAN is not 0 (leave it there for 802.1p).
+	 */
+	if (vlan_id)
+		vlan_vid_del(real_dev, vlan_id);
+
 	/* Get rid of the vlan's reference to real_dev */
 	dev_put(real_dev);
 }