firewire: net: fix use after free
authorStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Tue, 18 Feb 2014 21:25:15 +0000 (22:25 +0100)
committerStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:02:51 +0000 (11:02 +0100)
Commit 8408dc1c14c1 "firewire: net: use dev_printk API" introduced a
use-after-free in a failure path.  fwnet_transmit_packet_failed(ptask)
may free ptask, then the dev_err() call dereferenced it.  The fix is
straightforward; simply reorder the two calls.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.4+
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
drivers/firewire/net.c

index 6b89598..4af0a7b 100644 (file)
@@ -929,8 +929,6 @@ static void fwnet_write_complete(struct fw_card *card, int rcode,
        if (rcode == RCODE_COMPLETE) {
                fwnet_transmit_packet_done(ptask);
        } else {
-               fwnet_transmit_packet_failed(ptask);
-
                if (printk_timed_ratelimit(&j,  1000) || rcode != last_rcode) {
                        dev_err(&ptask->dev->netdev->dev,
                                "fwnet_write_complete failed: %x (skipped %d)\n",
@@ -938,8 +936,10 @@ static void fwnet_write_complete(struct fw_card *card, int rcode,
 
                        errors_skipped = 0;
                        last_rcode = rcode;
-               } else
+               } else {
                        errors_skipped++;
+               }
+               fwnet_transmit_packet_failed(ptask);
        }
 }