Re: [PATCH net] net: nfc: llcp: Add lock when modifying device list

From: Jeremy Cline
Date: Sun Sep 10 2023 - 19:06:49 EST


On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 05:28:12PM +0200, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 07:58:53PM -0400, Jeremy Cline wrote:
> > The device list needs its associated lock held when modifying it, or the
> > list could become corrupted, as syzbot discovered.
> >
> > Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+c1d0a03d305972dbbe14@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c1d0a03d305972dbbe14
> > Signed-off-by: Jeremy Cline <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> thanks for your patch.
>
> I don't think you need to resubmit for this,
> I think this patch warrants a fixes tag:
>
> Fixes: d646960f7986 ("NFC: Initial LLCP support")
>

My bad, indeed. The lock in question looks to have been added in
6709d4b7bc2e ("net: nfc: Fix use-after-free caused by
nfc_llcp_find_local") which itself includes a couple fix tags, should
this reference that commit instead as it won't backport without that
one?

> Otherwise, this looks good to me.
>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>
>

Thanks,
Jeremy