From: Atharva Vartak <atharva.a.vartak@gmail.com>
To: "D. Wythe" <alibuda@linux.alibaba.com>,
Dust Li <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com>,
Sidraya Jayagond <sidraya@linux.ibm.com>,
Mahanta Jambigi <mjambigi@linux.ibm.com>,
Tony Lu <tonylu@linux.alibaba.com>,
Wen Gu <guwen@linux.alibaba.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Ursula Braun <ubraun@linux.ibm.com>,
Hans Wippel <hwippel@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Atharva Vartak <atharva.a.vartak@gmail.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Subject: [PATCH v2] net/smc: hold a reference on net_device returned by pnet_find_base_ndev()
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2026 00:00:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261007040009.137568-1-atharva.a.vartak@gmail.com> (raw)
pnet_find_base_ndev() resolves the base net_device for stacked devices
under RTNL, then drops the lock and returns the raw pointer without
taking a reference. All three callers dereference the pointer after
RTNL has been released, creating a use-after-free window if the device
is concurrently unregistered.
Take a reference with netdev_hold() before dropping RTNL and add the
matching netdev_put() in every return path of the three callers:
- smc_pnet_add_eth()
- smc_pnet_find_roce_by_pnetid()
- smc_pnet_find_ism_by_pnetid()
Fixes: 0afff91c6f5e ("net/smc: add pnetid support")
Fixes: 1619f770589a ("net/smc: add pnetid support for SMC-D and ISM")
Cc: "D. Wythe" <alibuda@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Dust Li <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Sidraya Jayagond <sidraya@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mahanta Jambigi <mjambigi@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Tony Lu <tonylu@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Wen Gu <guwen@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Atharva Vartak <atharva.a.vartak@gmail.com>
---
v2: use netdev_hold()/netdev_put() with a netdevice_tracker instead of
the deprecated dev_hold()/dev_put() (Jakub Kicinski).
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/6aba080c.b933486d.297b72.5042@mx.google.com/
net/smc/smc_pnet.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/smc/smc_pnet.c b/net/smc/smc_pnet.c
index ff9c9c35cc2f..61ef1d697eee 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_pnet.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_pnet.c
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@
#include "smc_core.h"
static struct net_device *__pnet_find_base_ndev(struct net_device *ndev);
-static struct net_device *pnet_find_base_ndev(struct net_device *ndev);
+static struct net_device *pnet_find_base_ndev(struct net_device *ndev,
+ netdevice_tracker *tracker);
static const struct nla_policy smc_pnet_policy[SMC_PNETID_MAX + 1] = {
[SMC_PNETID_NAME] = {
@@ -356,6 +357,7 @@ static int smc_pnet_add_eth(struct smc_pnettable *pnettable, struct net *net,
struct smc_pnetentry *tmp_pe, *new_pe;
struct net_device *ndev, *base_ndev;
u8 ndev_pnetid[SMC_MAX_PNETID_LEN];
+ netdevice_tracker base_tracker;
bool new_netdev;
int rc;
@@ -365,10 +367,13 @@ static int smc_pnet_add_eth(struct smc_pnettable *pnettable, struct net *net,
rc = -EEXIST;
ndev = dev_get_by_name(net, eth_name); /* dev_hold() */
if (ndev) {
- base_ndev = pnet_find_base_ndev(ndev);
+ base_ndev = pnet_find_base_ndev(ndev, &base_tracker);
if (!smc_pnetid_by_dev_port(base_ndev->dev.parent,
- base_ndev->dev_port, ndev_pnetid))
+ base_ndev->dev_port, ndev_pnetid)) {
+ netdev_put(base_ndev, &base_tracker);
goto out_put;
+ }
+ netdev_put(base_ndev, &base_tracker);
}
/* add a new netdev entry to the pnet table if there isn't one */
@@ -945,10 +950,13 @@ static struct net_device *__pnet_find_base_ndev(struct net_device *ndev)
* (for instance with bonding slaves), just the first device
* is used to reach a base device.
*/
-static struct net_device *pnet_find_base_ndev(struct net_device *ndev)
+static struct net_device *pnet_find_base_ndev(struct net_device *ndev,
+ netdevice_tracker *tracker)
{
rtnl_lock();
ndev = __pnet_find_base_ndev(ndev);
+ /* keep ndev alive after dropping RTNL, callers must netdev_put() */
+ netdev_hold(ndev, tracker, GFP_KERNEL);
rtnl_unlock();
return ndev;
}
@@ -1085,17 +1093,20 @@ static void smc_pnet_find_roce_by_pnetid(struct net_device *ndev,
{
u8 ndev_pnetid[SMC_MAX_PNETID_LEN];
struct net_device *base_ndev;
+ netdevice_tracker base_tracker;
struct net *net;
- base_ndev = pnet_find_base_ndev(ndev);
+ base_ndev = pnet_find_base_ndev(ndev, &base_tracker);
net = dev_net(ndev);
if (smc_pnetid_by_dev_port(base_ndev->dev.parent, base_ndev->dev_port,
ndev_pnetid) &&
smc_pnet_find_ndev_pnetid_by_table(base_ndev, ndev_pnetid) &&
smc_pnet_find_ndev_pnetid_by_table(ndev, ndev_pnetid)) {
smc_pnet_find_rdma_dev(base_ndev, ini);
+ netdev_put(base_ndev, &base_tracker);
return; /* pnetid could not be determined */
}
+ netdev_put(base_ndev, &base_tracker);
_smc_pnet_find_roce_by_pnetid(ndev_pnetid, ini, NULL, net);
}
@@ -1103,13 +1114,16 @@ static void smc_pnet_find_ism_by_pnetid(struct net_device *ndev,
struct smc_init_info *ini)
{
u8 ndev_pnetid[SMC_MAX_PNETID_LEN];
+ netdevice_tracker base_tracker;
struct smcd_dev *ismdev;
- ndev = pnet_find_base_ndev(ndev);
+ ndev = pnet_find_base_ndev(ndev, &base_tracker);
if (smc_pnetid_by_dev_port(ndev->dev.parent, ndev->dev_port,
ndev_pnetid) &&
- smc_pnet_find_ndev_pnetid_by_table(ndev, ndev_pnetid))
+ smc_pnet_find_ndev_pnetid_by_table(ndev, ndev_pnetid)) {
+ netdev_put(ndev, &base_tracker);
return; /* pnetid could not be determined */
+ }
mutex_lock(&smcd_dev_list.mutex);
list_for_each_entry(ismdev, &smcd_dev_list.list, list) {
@@ -1123,6 +1137,7 @@ static void smc_pnet_find_ism_by_pnetid(struct net_device *ndev,
}
}
mutex_unlock(&smcd_dev_list.mutex);
+ netdev_put(ndev, &base_tracker);
}
/* PNET table analysis for a given sock:
--
2.56.0
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