From: Chengfeng Ye cyeaa@connect.ust.hk
&e->event and e point to the same address, and &e->event could be freed in queue_event. So there is a potential uaf issue if we dereference e after calling queue_event(). Fix this by adding a temporary variable to maintain e->client in advance, this can avoid the potential uaf issue.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Chengfeng Ye cyeaa@connect.ust.hk Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp --- drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c b/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c index 9f89c17730b1..708e417200f4 100644 --- a/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c +++ b/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c @@ -1500,6 +1500,7 @@ static void outbound_phy_packet_callback(struct fw_packet *packet, { struct outbound_phy_packet_event *e = container_of(packet, struct outbound_phy_packet_event, p); + struct client *e_client;
switch (status) { /* expected: */ @@ -1516,9 +1517,10 @@ static void outbound_phy_packet_callback(struct fw_packet *packet, } e->phy_packet.data[0] = packet->timestamp;
+ e_client = e->client; queue_event(e->client, &e->event, &e->phy_packet, sizeof(e->phy_packet) + e->phy_packet.length, NULL, 0); - client_put(e->client); + client_put(e_client); }
static int ioctl_send_phy_packet(struct client *client, union ioctl_arg *arg)