Currently, netconsole cleans up the netpoll structure before disabling the target. This approach can lead to race conditions, as message senders (write_ext_msg() and write_msg()) check if the target is enabled before using netpoll. The sender can validate that the target is enabled, but, the netpoll might be de-allocated already, causing undesired behaviours.

This patch reverses the order of operations: 1. Disable the target 2. Clean up the netpoll structure

This change eliminates the potential race condition, ensuring that no messages are sent through a partially cleaned-up netpoll structure.

Fixes: 2382b15bcc39 ("netconsole: take care of NETDEV_UNREGISTER event") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org --- Changelog:

v2: * Targeting "net" instead of "net-dev" (Jakub)

v1: * https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240709144403.544099-4-leitao@debian.org/

drivers/net/netconsole.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c index d7070dd4fe73..aa66c923790f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c +++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c @@ -974,6 +974,7 @@ static int netconsole_netdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, /* rtnl_lock already held * we might sleep in __netpoll_cleanup() */ + nt->enabled = false; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&target_list_lock, flags);

__netpoll_cleanup(&nt->np); @@ -981,7 +982,6 @@ static int netconsole_netdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, spin_lock_irqsave(&target_list_lock, flags); netdev_put(nt->np.dev, &nt->np.dev_tracker); nt->np.dev = NULL; - nt->enabled = false; stopped = true; netconsole_target_put(nt); goto restart;