[PATCH v5 net] rtnetlink: Fix memory(net_device) leak when ->newlink fails

[PATCH v5 net] rtnetlink: Fix memory(net_device) leak when ->newlink fails

[Weilong Chen]

When vlan_newlink call register_vlan_dev fails, it might return error
with dev->reg_state = NETREG_UNREGISTERED. The rtnl_newlink should
free the memory. But currently rtnl_newlink only free the memory which
state is NETREG_UNINITIALIZED.

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff8881051de000 (size 4096):
  comm "syz-executor139", pid 560, jiffies 4294745346 (age 32.445s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    76 6c 61 6e 32 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  vlan2...........
    00 45 28 03 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  .E(.............
  backtrace:
    [<0000000047527e31>] kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:578 [inline]
    [<0000000047527e31>] kvmalloc_node+0x33/0xd0 mm/util.c:574
    [<000000002b59e3bc>] kvmalloc include/linux/mm.h:753 [inline]
    [<000000002b59e3bc>] kvzalloc include/linux/mm.h:761 [inline]
    [<000000002b59e3bc>] alloc_netdev_mqs+0x83/0xd90 net/core/dev.c:9929
    [<000000006076752a>] rtnl_create_link+0x2c0/0xa20 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3067
    [<00000000572b3be5>] __rtnl_newlink+0xc9c/0x1330 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3329
    [<00000000e84ea553>] rtnl_newlink+0x66/0x90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3397
    [<0000000052c7c0a9>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x540/0x990 net/core/rtnetlink.c:5460
    [<000000004b5cb379>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x12b/0x3a0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2469
    [<00000000c71c20d3>] netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1303 [inline]
    [<00000000c71c20d3>] netlink_unicast+0x4c6/0x690 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1329
    [<00000000cca72fa9>] netlink_sendmsg+0x735/0xcc0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1918
    [<000000009221ebf7>] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:652 [inline]
    [<000000009221ebf7>] sock_sendmsg+0x109/0x140 net/socket.c:672
    [<000000001c30ffe4>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x5f5/0x780 net/socket.c:2352
    [<00000000b71ca6f3>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x11d/0x1a0 net/socket.c:2406
    [<0000000007297384>] __sys_sendmsg+0xeb/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2439
    [<000000000eb29b11>] do_syscall_64+0x56/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:359
    [<000000006839b4d0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Fixes: cb626bf566eb ("net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Weilong Chen <chenweilong@huawei.com>
---
 net/core/rtnetlink.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 9aedc15736ad..85a4b0101f76 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -3343,7 +3343,8 @@ static int __rtnl_newlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
 		 */
 		if (err < 0) {
 			/* If device is not registered at all, free it now */
-			if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED)
+			if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED ||
+			    dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNREGISTERED)
 				free_netdev(dev);
 			goto out;
 		}
-- 
2.17.1

Re: [PATCH v5 net] rtnetlink: Fix memory(net_device) leak when ->newlink fails

[David Miller]

From: Weilong Chen <chenweilong@huawei.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 20:58:10 +0800

> When vlan_newlink call register_vlan_dev fails, it might return error
> with dev->reg_state = NETREG_UNREGISTERED. The rtnl_newlink should
> free the memory. But currently rtnl_newlink only free the memory which
> state is NETREG_UNINITIALIZED.
 ...
> Fixes: cb626bf566eb ("net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak")
> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Weilong Chen <chenweilong@huawei.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.