From: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 10:10:14 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: caif: Fix access to freed pernet memory
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~7541^2~856
X-Git-Url: http://plrg.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=22cb83b5a318697b09fe1d6e237703d8371ab1fe;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

caif: Fix access to freed pernet memory

[ Upstream commit 96f80d123eff05c3cd4701463786b87952a6c3ac ]

unregister_netdevice_notifier() must be called before
unregister_pernet_subsys() to avoid accessing already freed
pernet memory. This fixes the following oops when doing rmmod:

Call Trace:
 [<ffffffffa0f802bd>] caif_device_notify+0x4d/0x5a0 [caif]
 [<ffffffff81552ba9>] unregister_netdevice_notifier+0xb9/0x100
 [<ffffffffa0f86dcc>] caif_device_exit+0x1c/0x250 [caif]
 [<ffffffff810e7734>] sys_delete_module+0x1a4/0x300
 [<ffffffff810da82d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x15d/0x1e0
 [<ffffffff813517de>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3
 [<ffffffff81696bad>] system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f

RIP
 [<ffffffffa0f7f561>] caif_get+0x51/0xb0 [caif]

Signed-off-by: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

diff --git a/net/caif/caif_dev.c b/net/caif/caif_dev.c
index 5ba4366a220d..804e50f18a5b 100644
--- a/net/caif/caif_dev.c
+++ b/net/caif/caif_dev.c
@@ -424,9 +424,9 @@ static int __init caif_device_init(void)
 
 static void __exit caif_device_exit(void)
 {
-	unregister_pernet_subsys(&caif_net_ops);
 	unregister_netdevice_notifier(&caif_device_notifier);
 	dev_remove_pack(&caif_packet_type);
+	unregister_pernet_subsys(&caif_net_ops);
 }
 
 module_init(caif_device_init);