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Commit 942e560a authored by Pavel Skripkin's avatar Pavel Skripkin Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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net: vxge: fix use-after-free in vxge_device_unregister

Smatch says:
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-main.c:3518 vxge_device_unregister() error: Using vdev after free_{netdev,candev}(dev);
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-main.c:3518 vxge_device_unregister() error: Using vdev after free_{netdev,candev}(dev);
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-main.c:3520 vxge_device_unregister() error: Using vdev after free_{netdev,candev}(dev);
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-main.c:3520 vxge_device_unregister() error: Using vdev after free_{netdev,candev}(dev);

Since vdev pointer is netdev private data accessing it after free_netdev()
call can cause use-after-free bug. Fix it by moving free_netdev() call at
the end of the function

Fixes: 6cca2003

 ("vxge: cleanup probe error paths")
Reported-by: default avatarDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 44712965
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