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net: seeq: Fix use after free vulnerability in ether3 Driver Due to Race Condition

In the ether3_probe function, a timer is initialized with a callback
function ether3_ledoff, bound to &prev(dev)->timer. Once the timer is
started, there is a risk of a race condition if the module or device
is removed, triggering the ether3_remove function to perform cleanup.
The sequence of operations that may lead to a UAF bug is as follows:

CPU0 CPU1

| ether3_ledoff
ether3_remove |
free_netdev(dev); |
put_devic |
kfree(dev); |
| ether3_outw(priv(dev)->regs.config2 |= CFG2_CTRLO, REG_CONFIG2);
| // use dev

Fix it by ensuring that the timer is canceled before proceeding with
the cleanup in ether3_remove.

Fixes: 6fd9c53f7186 ("net: seeq: Convert timers to use timer_setup()")
Signed-off-by: Kaixin Wang <kxwang23@m.fudan.edu.cn>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240915144045.451-1-kxwang23@m.fudan.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

authored by

Kaixin Wang and committed by
Paolo Abeni
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drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/ether3.c
··· 847 847 { 848 848 struct net_device *dev = ecard_get_drvdata(ec); 849 849 850 + ether3_outw(priv(dev)->regs.config2 |= CFG2_CTRLO, REG_CONFIG2); 850 851 ecard_set_drvdata(ec, NULL); 851 852 852 853 unregister_netdev(dev); 854 + del_timer_sync(&priv(dev)->timer); 853 855 free_netdev(dev); 854 856 ecard_release_resources(ec); 855 857 }