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drivers: net: slip: fix NPD bug in sl_tx_timeout()

When a slip driver is detaching, the slip_close() will act to
cleanup necessary resources and sl->tty is set to NULL in
slip_close(). Meanwhile, the packet we transmit is blocked,
sl_tx_timeout() will be called. Although slip_close() and
sl_tx_timeout() use sl->lock to synchronize, we don`t judge
whether sl->tty equals to NULL in sl_tx_timeout() and the
null pointer dereference bug will happen.

(Thread 1) | (Thread 2)
| slip_close()
| spin_lock_bh(&sl->lock)
| ...
... | sl->tty = NULL //(1)
sl_tx_timeout() | spin_unlock_bh(&sl->lock)
spin_lock(&sl->lock); |
... | ...
tty_chars_in_buffer(sl->tty)|
if (tty->ops->..) //(2) |
... | synchronize_rcu()

We set NULL to sl->tty in position (1) and dereference sl->tty
in position (2).

This patch adds check in sl_tx_timeout(). If sl->tty equals to
NULL, sl_tx_timeout() will goto out.

Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220405132206.55291-1-duoming@zju.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

authored by

Duoming Zhou and committed by
Jakub Kicinski
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+1 -1
drivers/net/slip/slip.c
··· 469 469 spin_lock(&sl->lock); 470 470 471 471 if (netif_queue_stopped(dev)) { 472 - if (!netif_running(dev)) 472 + if (!netif_running(dev) || !sl->tty) 473 473 goto out; 474 474 475 475 /* May be we must check transmitter timeout here ?