From: Tristan Madani <tristmd@gmail.com>
To: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>,
Paul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com>
Cc: "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>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org,
Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net/ncsi: use kfree_rcu_mightsleep for RCU-protected list entries
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 16:06:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261111160649.677910-1-tristmd@gmail.com> (raw)
From: Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>
ncsi_remove_channel(), ncsi_remove_package(), and ncsi_unregister_dev()
each call list_del_rcu() to remove an entry from an RCU-protected list,
then immediately call kfree(). Concurrent RCU readers traversing the
list may still hold references to the freed object.
A similar pattern was already fixed in the VLAN list, but these three
sites were missed.
Replace kfree() with kfree_rcu_mightsleep() to defer the free until
after an RCU grace period.
Fixes: 2d283bdd5b20 ("net/ncsi: Package and channel management")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>
---
net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c b/net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c
index 54d0df0a9efe6..64274a5058346 100644
--- a/net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c
+++ b/net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ static void ncsi_remove_channel(struct ncsi_channel *nc)
np->channel_num--;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&np->lock, flags);
- kfree(nc);
+ kfree_rcu_mightsleep(nc);
}
struct ncsi_package *ncsi_find_package(struct ncsi_dev_priv *ndp,
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ void ncsi_remove_package(struct ncsi_package *np)
ndp->package_num--;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ndp->lock, flags);
- kfree(np);
+ kfree_rcu_mightsleep(np);
}
void ncsi_find_package_and_channel(struct ncsi_dev_priv *ndp,
@@ -1969,6 +1969,6 @@ void ncsi_unregister_dev(struct ncsi_dev *nd)
disable_work_sync(&ndp->work);
- kfree(ndp);
+ kfree_rcu_mightsleep(ndp);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ncsi_unregister_dev);
--
2.47.3
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