linux/drivers/net
Hohyun Sim 7c8810c2e6 net: fddi: skfp: fix NULL deref when setting the MAC address while down
skfp_ctl_set_mac_address() calls ResetAdapter() unconditionally, without
checking netif_running(). ResetAdapter() first calls card_stop(), which
sets smc->hw.hw_state to STOPPED, and then mac_drv_clear_tx_queue(),
which walks the two transmit queues:

	for (i = QUEUE_S; i <= QUEUE_A0; i++) {
		queue = smc->hw.fp.tx[i] ;
		...
		t = queue->tx_curr_get ;

smc->hw.fp.tx[] is only populated by init_tx(), which is reached from
skfp_open() through init_smt() -> init_fddi_driver() -> init_fplus() ->
init_mac() -> init_tx(). The private area is allocated and zeroed by
alloc_fddidev(), so on an interface that has never been brought up both
queue pointers are still NULL. The hw_state test at the top of
mac_drv_clear_tx_queue() does not catch this, because card_stop() has
just set STOPPED; the function proceeds into the loop and dereferences
NULL. ResetAdapter() does call init_smt() itself, but only after the
queues have been cleared.

Setting the MAC address on a down interface therefore oopses:

  ip link set dev fddi0 address 02:00:00:00:00:01

  BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in mac_drv_clear_tx_queue+0x68/0x2c0 [skfp]
  Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000010 by task ip/302
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   mac_drv_clear_tx_queue+0x68/0x2c0 [skfp 6c01d4bab63c36978bd0a7d7e90837adb44cc37b]
   ResetAdapter+0x29/0x100 [skfp 6c01d4bab63c36978bd0a7d7e90837adb44cc37b]
   skfp_ctl_set_mac_address+0x57/0x80 [skfp 6c01d4bab63c36978bd0a7d7e90837adb44cc37b]
   netif_set_mac_address+0x1e4/0x2c0
   do_setlink+0x684/0x2680
   </TASK>

Address 0x10 is the offset of tx_curr_get, the third pointer in
struct s_smt_tx_queue, on 64-bit. mac_drv_clear_rx_queue(), which
ResetAdapter() calls immediately afterwards, dereferences
smc->hw.fp.rx[QUEUE_R1] in the same way behind the same ineffective
hw_state test; the transmit queue merely crashes first. Both are
covered by the guard below.

Skip the adapter reset when the interface is down. dev_addr_set() is
left unconditional, so the new address is still recorded in
dev->dev_addr. Nothing is lost by not resetting the adapter here:
skfp_open() deliberately re-reads the factory address on every open,

	read_address(smc, NULL);
	eth_hw_addr_set(dev, smc->hw.fddi_canon_addr.a);

and the comment above it states this is done to discard exactly such an
address override across a close/open cycle. An address set while the
interface is down could not have survived the following open even
before this change, so the guard removes no working behaviour. Guarding
the hardware side of ndo_set_mac_address() with netif_running() is
established practice; skge_set_mac_address() has done so since commit
2eb3e621c4 ("skge: set mac address bonding fix").

Guarding the reset as a whole, rather than NULL-checking the queues, is
also what the rest of the driver expects. After a previous open/close
the queue pointers are stale but non-NULL, so there is no crash, yet
ResetAdapter() goes on to call smt_online() and STI_FBI() ("Enable
Board Interrupts") while skfp_close() has already called free_irq() -
the adapter would be brought back online with no handler installed. The
only other ResetAdapter() caller is skfp_interrupt(), which by
construction runs only while the device is open.

Found by automated driver testing against an emulated SysKonnect FDDI
adapter under a KASAN-enabled 7.0.0 kernel. Triggering it requires
CAP_NET_ADMIN.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Assisted-by: LLM KASAN
Signed-off-by: Hohyun Sim <tlaghgus0425@korea.ac.kr>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260910063743.110747-1-tlaghgus0425@korea.ac.kr
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2026-09-15 10:31:54 +02:00
..
arcnet
bonding bonding: use skb_cow_head() in bond_do_alb_xmit() and rlb_arp_xmit() 2026-09-04 15:18:41 -07:00
can can: m_can: pci: Remove driver_data 2026-08-17 19:20:38 +02:00
dsa net: dsa: mxl862xx: disable the stats poll on teardown 2026-09-14 19:05:46 -07:00
ethernet net: bcmgenet: restore the hardware filters on open 2026-09-14 19:21:58 -07:00
fddi net: fddi: skfp: fix NULL deref when setting the MAC address while down 2026-09-15 10:31:54 +02:00
fjes
hyperv hv_netvsc: Remove GPADL teardown special case for old Hyper-V hosts 2026-08-24 00:35:42 +00:00
ieee802154 ieee802154: hwsim: serialize pib updates to fix double-free 2026-09-02 10:26:47 +02:00
ipa net: ipa: balance runtime PM reference on remove error 2026-08-20 12:26:24 -07:00
ipvlan ipvlan: unregister upper devices outside pnodes_lock 2026-08-30 14:30:59 -07:00
mctp net: mctp: i3c: serialize probe with bus removal 2026-09-05 09:39:00 +01:00
mdio
netdevsim netdevsim: update queue NAPI association on queue reset 2026-08-20 12:35:57 -07:00
ovpn ovpn: defer key slot crypto freeing to workqueue 2026-08-09 22:47:57 +02:00
pcs
phy net: phy: mediatek: do not report link and per-speed LED rules together 2026-09-14 19:01:51 -07:00
plip
ppp ppp_synctty: ensure a writeable skb header 2026-09-09 18:41:57 -07:00
pse-pd net: pse-pd: realtek-pse-mcu: add UART transport 2026-08-18 15:04:33 +02:00
slip slip: remove slip_hangup() to fix use-after-free in slip_receive_buf() 2026-08-27 12:38:27 -07:00
team
thunderbolt Including fixes from Bluetooth, IPSec and Netfilter. 2026-08-27 13:53:43 -07:00
usb net: hso: fix TIOCMIWAIT race 2026-09-10 11:09:50 +02:00
vmxnet3
vxlan vxlan: initialize _md in vxlan_xmit_one() 2026-09-09 18:33:02 -07:00
wan
wireguard
wireless treewide: refresh kmalloc_obj() conversions 2026-09-04 21:37:00 -07:00
wwan
xen-netback
amt.c amt: Don't support cross-netns setup. 2026-08-10 16:03:03 -07:00
bareudp.c
dummy.c
eql.c
geneve.c
gtp.c net: iptunnel: fix stale transport header during tunnel decapsulation 2026-08-28 15:53:46 -07:00
ifb.c
Kconfig
LICENSE.SRC
loopback.c
macsec.c
macvlan.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2026-08-13 11:00:14 -07:00
macvtap.c
Makefile
mdio.c
mhi_net.c
mii.c
net_failover.c net: net_failover: Fix the deadlock in net_failover_slave_name_change() 2026-09-10 15:19:06 +02:00
netconsole.c netconsole: publish the userdata payload with RCU 2026-08-13 15:04:40 +02:00
netkit.c
nlmon.c
ntb_netdev.c treewide: refresh kmalloc_obj() conversions 2026-09-04 21:37:00 -07:00
pfcp.c
rionet.c
sungem_phy.c
tap.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2026-08-13 11:00:14 -07:00
tun_vnet.h
tun.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2026-08-18 10:42:41 -07:00
veth.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2026-08-13 11:00:14 -07:00
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vrf.c
vsockmon.c
xen-netfront.c