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* [PATCH] net-sysfs: Fix memory leak in netdev_register_kobject
@ 2019-03-19  5:06 Wang Hai
  2019-03-18 15:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
  2019-03-18 18:02 ` Eric Dumazet
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Wang Hai @ 2019-03-19  5:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: davem, idosch, alexander.h.duyck, tyhicks, f.fainelli
  Cc: amritha.nambiar, joe, dmitry.torokhov, andriy.shevchenko, netdev,
	linux-kernel, wanghai26

When registering struct net_device, it will call
	register_netdevice ->
		netdev_register_kobject ->
			device_add(dev)
			register_queue_kobjects(ndev)

If device_add(dev) or register_queue_kobjects(ndev) fails.
Register_netdevice() will return error, causing netdev_freemem(ndev)
to be called to free net_device, however (&ndev->dev)->kobj.name will
not be freed, resulting in a memory leak.

syzkaller report this:
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff8881f4fad168 (size 8):
comm "syz-executor.0", pid 3575, jiffies 4294778002 (age 20.134s)
hex dump (first 8 bytes):
  77 70 61 6e 30 00 ff ff                          wpan0...
backtrace:
  [<000000006d2d91d7>] kstrdup_const+0x3d/0x50 mm/util.c:73
  [<00000000ba9ff953>] kvasprintf_const+0x112/0x170 lib/kasprintf.c:48
  [<000000005555ec09>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x55/0x130 lib/kobject.c:281
  [<0000000098d28ec3>] dev_set_name+0xbb/0xf0 drivers/base/core.c:1915
  [<00000000b7553017>] netdev_register_kobject+0xc0/0x410 net/core/net-sysfs.c:1727
  [<00000000c826a797>] register_netdevice+0xa51/0xeb0 net/core/dev.c:8711
  [<00000000857bfcfd>] cfg802154_update_iface_num.isra.2+0x13/0x90 [ieee802154]
  [<000000003126e453>] ieee802154_llsec_fill_key_id+0x1d5/0x570 [ieee802154]
  [<00000000e4b3df51>] 0xffffffffc1500e0e
  [<00000000b4319776>] platform_drv_probe+0xc6/0x180 drivers/base/platform.c:614
  [<0000000037669347>] really_probe+0x491/0x7c0 drivers/base/dd.c:509
  [<000000008fed8862>] driver_probe_device+0xdc/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:671
  [<00000000baf52041>] device_driver_attach+0xf2/0x130 drivers/base/dd.c:945
  [<00000000c7cc8dec>] __driver_attach+0x10e/0x210 drivers/base/dd.c:1022
  [<0000000057a757c2>] bus_for_each_dev+0x154/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:304
  [<000000005f5ae04b>] bus_add_driver+0x427/0x5e0 drivers/base/bus.c:645

Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Fixes: 1d24eb4815d1 ("xps: Transmit Packet Steering")
Signed-off-by: Wang Hai <wanghai26@huawei.com>
---
 net/core/net-sysfs.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index 4ff661f..f0e53dc 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -1745,17 +1745,22 @@ int netdev_register_kobject(struct net_device *ndev)
 
 	error = device_add(dev);
 	if (error)
-		return error;
+		goto device_add_error;
 
 	error = register_queue_kobjects(ndev);
-	if (error) {
-		device_del(dev);
-		return error;
-	}
+	if (error)
+		goto register_error;
 
 	pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(dev, true);
 
+out:
 	return error;
+
+register_error:
+	device_del(dev);
+device_add_error:
+	kfree_const(dev->kobj.name);
+	goto out;
 }
 
 int netdev_class_create_file_ns(const struct class_attribute *class_attr,
-- 
1.8.3.1


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2019-03-19  3:03   ` wanghai (M)
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2019-03-19  3:39       ` wanghai (M)
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