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Palash reports a UAF when using a modified version of syzkaller[1].
When 'tcf_exts_miss_cookie_base_alloc()' fails in 'tcf_exts_init_ex()'
a call to 'tcf_exts_destroy()' is made to free up the tcf_exts
resources.
In flower, a call to '__fl_put()' when 'tcf_exts_init_ex()' fails is made;
Then calling 'tcf_exts_destroy()', which triggers an UAF since the
already freed tcf_exts action pointer is lingering in the struct.
Before the offending patch, this was not an issue since there was no
case where the tcf_exts action pointer could linger. Therefore, restore
the old semantic by clearing the action pointer in case of a failure to
initialize the miss_cookie.
[1] https://github.com/cmu-pasta/linux-kernel-enriched-corpus
v1->v2: Fix compilation on configs without tc actions (kernel test robot)
Fixes: 80cd22c35c ("net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action")
Reported-by: Palash Oswal <oswalpalash@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Pedro Tammela <pctammela@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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