In drivers/net/arcnet/arcnet.c, the functions arcnet_reply_tasklet() and arcnet_send_packet() may be concurrently executed.
arcnet_reply_tasklet() line 430: dev_kfree_skb(lp->outgoing.skb); arcnet_send_packet() line 682: spin_lock_irqsave(); line 690: lp->outgoing.skb = skb; line 691: proto->prepare_tx(..., skb->len, ...) Thus, a possible concurrency use-after-free bugs may occur. To fix this bug, the calls to spin_lock_irqsave() and spin_unlock_irqrestore() are added in arcnet_reply_tasklet() to protect dev_kfree_skb(lp->outgoing.skb). Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1...@gmail.com> --- drivers/net/arcnet/arcnet.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/arcnet/arcnet.c b/drivers/net/arcnet/arcnet.c index 8459115d9d4e..c5e943d01d66 100644 --- a/drivers/net/arcnet/arcnet.c +++ b/drivers/net/arcnet/arcnet.c @@ -426,10 +426,14 @@ static void arcnet_reply_tasklet(unsigned long data) serr->ee.ee_data = skb_shinfo(skb)->tskey; serr->ee.ee_info = lp->reply_status; + spin_lock_irqsave(&lp->lock, flags); + /* finally erasing outgoing skb */ dev_kfree_skb(lp->outgoing.skb); lp->outgoing.skb = NULL; + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lp->lock, flags); + ackskb->dev = lp->dev; ret = sock_queue_err_skb(sk, ackskb); -- 2.17.0