CVE-2026-43232 net: wan: farsync: Fix use-after-free bugs caused by unfinished tasklets
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: wan: farsync: Fix use-after-free bugs caused by unfinished tasklets

When the FarSync T-series card is being detached, the fst_card_info is
deallocated in fst_remove_one(). However, the fst_tx_task or fst_int_task
may still be running or pending, leading to use-after-free bugs when the
already freed fst_card_info is accessed in fst_process_tx_work_q() or
fst_process_int_work_q().

A typical race condition is depicted below:

CPU 0 (cleanup)           | CPU 1 (tasklet)
                          | fst_start_xmit()
fst_remove_one()          |   tasklet_schedule()
  unregister_hdlc_device()|
                          | fst_process_tx_work_q() //handler
  kfree(card) //free      |   do_bottom_half_tx()
                          |     card-> //use

The following KASAN trace was captured:

==================================================================
 BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in do_bottom_half_tx+0xb88/0xd00
 Read of size 4 at addr ffff88800aad101c by task ksoftirqd/3/32
 ...
 Call Trace:
  <IRQ>
  dump_stack_lvl+0x55/0x70
  print_report+0xcb/0x5d0
  ? do_bottom_half_tx+0xb88/0xd00
  kasan_report+0xb8/0xf0
  ? do_bottom_half_tx+0xb88/0xd00
  do_bottom_half_tx+0xb88/0xd00
  ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x85/0xe0
  ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10
  ? __pfx___hrtimer_run_queues+0x10/0x10
  fst_process_tx_work_q+0x67/0x90
  tasklet_action_common+0x1fa/0x720
  ? hrtimer_interrupt+0x31f/0x780
  handle_softirqs+0x176/0x530
  __irq_exit_rcu+0xab/0xe0
  sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x70/0x80
 ...

 Allocated by task 41 on cpu 3 at 72.330843s:
  kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50
  kasan_save_track+0x17/0x60
  __kasan_kmalloc+0x7f/0x90
  fst_add_one+0x1a5/0x1cd0
  local_pci_probe+0xdd/0x190
  pci_device_probe+0x341/0x480
  really_probe+0x1c6/0x6a0
  __driver_probe_device+0x248/0x310
  driver_probe_device+0x48/0x210
  __device_attach_driver+0x160/0x320
  bus_for_each_drv+0x101/0x190
  __device_attach+0x198/0x3a0
  device_initial_probe+0x78/0xa0
  pci_bus_add_device+0x81/0xc0
  pci_bus_add_devices+0x7e/0x190
  enable_slot+0x9b9/0x1130
  acpiphp_check_bridge.part.0+0x2e1/0x460
  acpiphp_hotplug_notify+0x36c/0x3c0
  acpi_device_hotplug+0x203/0xb10
  acpi_hotplug_work_fn+0x59/0x80
 ...

 Freed by task 41 on cpu 1 at 75.138639s:
  kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50
  kasan_save_track+0x17/0x60
  kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60
  __kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70
  kfree+0x135/0x410
  fst_remove_one+0x2ca/0x540
  pci_device_remove+0xa6/0x1d0
  device_release_driver_internal+0x364/0x530
  pci_stop_bus_device+0x105/0x150
  pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device+0xd/0x20
  disable_slot+0x116/0x260
  acpiphp_disable_and_eject_slot+0x4b/0x190
  acpiphp_hotplug_notify+0x230/0x3c0
  acpi_device_hotplug+0x203/0xb10
  acpi_hotplug_work_fn+0x59/0x80
 ...

 The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88800aad1000
  which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
 The buggy address is located 28 bytes inside of
  freed 1024-byte region
 The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
 page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0xaad0
 head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
 flags: 0x100000000000040(head|node=0|zone=1)
 page_type: f5(slab)
 raw: 0100000000000040 ffff888007042dc0 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
 head: 0100000000000040 ffff888007042dc0 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
 head: 0000000000000000 0000000080100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
 head: 0100000000000003 ffffea00002ab401 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
 head: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

 Memory state around the buggy address:
  ffff88800aad0f00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
  ffff88800aad0f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 >ffff88800aad1000: fa fb
---truncated---
Affected products: vendor: Linux
product: Linux
default_status: unaffected
vendor: Linux
product: Linux
default_status: affected
CVSS v3.1: version: 3.1
vectorString: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
baseScore: 8.8
baseSeverity: HIGH
Published: 2026-05-06T11:28:28.910Z