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  - net: dsa: free routing table on probe failure If complete = true in dsa_tree_setup(), it means that we are     the last switch of the tree which is successfully probing, and we should be setting up all switches from     our probe path. After complete becomes true, dsa_tree_setup_cpu_ports() or any subsequent function may     fail. If that happens, the entire tree setup is in limbo: the first N-1 switches have successfully     finished probing (doing nothing but having allocated persistent memory in the tree's dst->ports, and maybe     dst->rtable), and switch N failed to probe, ending the tree setup process before anything is tangible from     the user's PoV. If switch N fails to probe, its memory (ports) will be freed and removed from dst->ports.
    However, the dst->rtable elements pointing to its ports, as created by dsa_link_touch(), will remain     there, and will lead to use-after-free if dereferenced. If dsa_tree_setup_switches() returns
    -EPROBE_DEFER, which is entirely possible because that is where ds->ops->setup() is, we get a kasan report     like this: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-     free in mv88e6xxx_setup_upstream_port+0x240/0x568 Read of size 8 at addr ffff000004f56020 by task     kworker/u8:3/42 Call trace: __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x20/0x30     mv88e6xxx_setup_upstream_port+0x240/0x568 mv88e6xxx_setup+0xebc/0x1eb0 dsa_register_switch+0x1af4/0x2ae0     mv88e6xxx_register_switch+0x1b8/0x2a8 mv88e6xxx_probe+0xc4c/0xf60 mdio_probe+0x78/0xb8     really_probe+0x2b8/0x5a8 __driver_probe_device+0x164/0x298 driver_probe_device+0x78/0x258
    __device_attach_driver+0x274/0x350 Allocated by task 42: __kasan_kmalloc+0x84/0xa0
    __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x298/0x490 dsa_switch_touch_ports+0x174/0x3d8 dsa_register_switch+0x800/0x2ae0     mv88e6xxx_register_switch+0x1b8/0x2a8 mv88e6xxx_probe+0xc4c/0xf60 mdio_probe+0x78/0xb8     really_probe+0x2b8/0x5a8 __driver_probe_device+0x164/0x298 driver_probe_device+0x78/0x258
    __device_attach_driver+0x274/0x350 Freed by task 42: __kasan_slab_free+0x48/0x68 kfree+0x138/0x418     dsa_register_switch+0x2694/0x2ae0 mv88e6xxx_register_switch+0x1b8/0x2a8 mv88e6xxx_probe+0xc4c/0xf60     mdio_probe+0x78/0xb8 really_probe+0x2b8/0x5a8 __driver_probe_device+0x164/0x298     driver_probe_device+0x78/0x258 __device_attach_driver+0x274/0x350 The simplest way to fix the bug is to     delete the routing table in its entirety. dsa_tree_setup_routing_table() has no problem in regenerating it     even if we deleted links between ports other than those of switch N, because dsa_link_touch() first checks     whether the port pair already exists in dst->rtable, allocating if not. The deletion of the routing table     in its entirety already exists in dsa_tree_teardown(), so refactor that into a function that can also be     called from the tree setup error path. In my analysis of the commit to blame, it is the one which added     dsa_link elements to dst->rtable. Prior to that, each switch had its own ds->rtable which is freed when     the switch fails to probe. But the tree is potentially persistent memory. (CVE-2025-37786)

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