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| author | David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> | 2016-01-15 14:55:36 +0000 | 
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-01-15 15:13:19 -0500 | 
| commit | 9c6f3ffe8200327d1cf2aad2ff2b414adaacbe96 (patch) | |
| tree | 8240a079a4eb513a9d71565a3051526d71329dda /drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c | |
| parent | 4a658527271bce43afb1cf4feec89afe6716ca59 (diff) | |
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xen-netback: free queues after freeing the net device
If a queue still has a NAPI instance added to the net device, freeing
the queues early results in a use-after-free.
The shouldn't ever happen because we disconnect and tear down all queues
before freeing the net device, but doing this makes it obviously safe.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c | 16 | 
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 11 deletions
| diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c index 3bba6ceee132..f5231a2dd2ac 100644 --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c @@ -685,22 +685,16 @@ void xenvif_deinit_queue(struct xenvif_queue *queue)  void xenvif_free(struct xenvif *vif)  { -	struct xenvif_queue *queue = NULL; +	struct xenvif_queue *queues = vif->queues;  	unsigned int num_queues = vif->num_queues;  	unsigned int queue_index;  	unregister_netdev(vif->dev); - -	for (queue_index = 0; queue_index < num_queues; ++queue_index) { -		queue = &vif->queues[queue_index]; -		xenvif_deinit_queue(queue); -	} - -	vfree(vif->queues); -	vif->queues = NULL; -	vif->num_queues = 0; -  	free_netdev(vif->dev); +	for (queue_index = 0; queue_index < num_queues; ++queue_index) +		xenvif_deinit_queue(&queues[queue_index]); +	vfree(queues); +  	module_put(THIS_MODULE);  } | 

