FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ethtool: do not perform operations on net devices being" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From dde91ccfa25fd58f64c397d91b81a4b393100ffa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antoine Tenart <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2021 11:13:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ethtool: do not perform operations on net devices being
unregistered

There is a short period between a net device starts to be unregistered and when it is actually gone. In that time frame ethtool operations could still be performed, which might end up in unwanted or undefined behaviours[1].

Do not allow ethtool operations after a net device starts its unregistration. This patch targets the netlink part as the ioctl one isn't affected: the reference to the net device is taken and the operation is executed within an rtnl lock section and the net device won't be found after unregister.

[1] For example adding Tx queues after unregister ends up in NULL

    pointer exceptions and UaFs, such as:

      BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in kobject_get+0x14/0x90
      Read of size 1 at addr ffff88801961248c by task ethtool/755

      CPU: 0 PID: 755 Comm: ethtool Not tainted 5.15.0-rc6+ #778
      Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-4.fc34 04/014
      Call Trace:
       dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x72
       print_address_description.constprop.0+0x1f/0x140
       kasan_report.cold+0x7f/0x11b
       kobject_get+0x14/0x90
       kobject_add_internal+0x3d1/0x450
       kobject_init_and_add+0xba/0xf0
       netdev_queue_update_kobjects+0xcf/0x200
       netif_set_real_num_tx_queues+0xb4/0x310
       veth_set_channels+0x1c3/0x550
       ethnl_set_channels+0x524/0x610

index 38b44c0291b1..96f4180aabd2 100644
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ int ethnl_ops_begin(struct net_device *dev)
 	if (dev->dev.parent)
 		pm_runtime_get_sync(dev->dev.parent);
 
-	if (!netif_device_present(dev)) {
+	if (!netif_device_present(dev) ||
+	    dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNREGISTERING) {
 		ret = -ENODEV;
 		goto err;
 	}