> -----Original Message-----
> From: Intel-wired-lan <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
> luoxuanqiang
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2026 4:59 AM
> To: Marcin Szycik <[email protected]>; intel-wired-
> [email protected]
> Cc: Nguyen, Anthony L <[email protected]>; Kitszel, Przemyslaw
> <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Samudrala,
> Sridhar <[email protected]>; Drewek, Wojciech
> <[email protected]>; [email protected];
> [email protected]; Keller, Jacob E
> <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Xuanqiang Luo
> <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-net v1] ice: fix use-after-free in
> dynamic port cleanup
> 
> 
> 在 2026/7/14 22:14, Marcin Szycik 写道:
> > On 14.07.2026 08:39,[email protected] wrote:
> >> From: Xuanqiang Luo<[email protected]>
> >>
> >> ice_dealloc_dynamic_port() uses dyn_port->vsi->idx to erase the
> >> dynamic port from pf->dyn_ports. However, it frees the VSI before
> >> reading the index for the erase, resulting in a use-after-free.
> >>
> >> Follow the reverse of the allocation order in
> >> ice_alloc_dynamic_port() by erasing the xarray entry before freeing the 
> >> VSI.
> >>
> >> Fixes: eda69d654c7e ("ice: add basic devlink subfunctions support")
> >> Cc:[email protected]
> >> Signed-off-by: Xuanqiang Luo<[email protected]>
> > Reviewed-by: Marcin Szycik<[email protected]>
> >
> > Thank you!
> > I wonder how such a glaring issue survived in the codebase for so long.
> > Perhaps ice_vsi_free() exited early for some reason.
> 
> Thanks for the review!
> 
> Hard to say—maybe the window is quite small and the freed slab still holds
> the old idx most of the time, so nothing obvious shows up.
> 
> >> ---
> >>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/devlink/port.c | 2 +-
> >>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/devlink/port.c
> >> b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/devlink/port.c
> >> index 2a2e56777f9f7..3ede246490027 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/devlink/port.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/devlink/port.c
> >> @@ -590,8 +590,8 @@ static void ice_dealloc_dynamic_port(struct
> >> ice_dynamic_port *dyn_port)
> >>
> >>    xa_erase(&pf->sf_nums, devlink_port->attrs.pci_sf.sf);
> >>    ice_eswitch_detach_sf(pf, dyn_port);
> >> -  ice_vsi_free(dyn_port->vsi);
> >>    xa_erase(&pf->dyn_ports, dyn_port->vsi->idx);
> >> +  ice_vsi_free(dyn_port->vsi);
> >>    kfree(dyn_port);
> >>   }
> >>

Tested-by: Patryk Holda <[email protected]> 


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