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staging: rtl8712: fix use-after-free in rtl8712_dl_fw

Syzbot reported use-after-free in rtl8712_dl_fw(). The problem was in
race condition between r871xu_dev_remove() ->ndo_open() callback.

It's easy to see from crash log, that driver accesses released firmware
in ->ndo_open() callback. It may happen, since driver was releasing
firmware _before_ unregistering netdev. Fix it by moving
unregister_netdev() before cleaning up resources.

Call Trace:
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rtl871x_open_fw drivers/staging/rtl8712/hal_init.c:83 [inline]
rtl8712_dl_fw+0xd95/0xe10 drivers/staging/rtl8712/hal_init.c:170
rtl8712_hal_init drivers/staging/rtl8712/hal_init.c:330 [inline]
rtl871x_hal_init+0xae/0x180 drivers/staging/rtl8712/hal_init.c:394
netdev_open+0xe6/0x6c0 drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c:380
__dev_open+0x2bc/0x4d0 net/core/dev.c:1484

Freed by task 1306:
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release_firmware+0x1b/0x30 drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:1053
r871xu_dev_remove+0xcc/0x2c0 drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c:599
usb_unbind_interface+0x1d8/0x8d0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:458

Fixes: 8c213fa59199 ("staging: r8712u: Use asynchronous firmware loading")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+c55162be492189fb4f51@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211019211718.26354-1-paskripkin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

authored by

Pavel Skripkin and committed by
Greg Kroah-Hartman
c052cc1a 5978d492

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drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c
··· 595 595 596 596 /* never exit with a firmware callback pending */ 597 597 wait_for_completion(&padapter->rtl8712_fw_ready); 598 + if (pnetdev->reg_state != NETREG_UNINITIALIZED) 599 + unregister_netdev(pnetdev); /* will call netdev_close() */ 598 600 usb_set_intfdata(pusb_intf, NULL); 599 601 release_firmware(padapter->fw); 600 602 if (drvpriv.drv_registered) 601 603 padapter->surprise_removed = true; 602 - if (pnetdev->reg_state != NETREG_UNINITIALIZED) 603 - unregister_netdev(pnetdev); /* will call netdev_close() */ 604 604 r8712_flush_rwctrl_works(padapter); 605 605 r8712_flush_led_works(padapter); 606 606 udelay(1);