From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@gmail.com>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>,
Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>,
Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>,
kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] audit: fix memory leak in nf_tables_commit
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 15:20:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210713132059.GB11179@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210713130344.473646-1-mudongliangabcd@gmail.com>
Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@gmail.com> wrote:
> In nf_tables_commit, if nf_tables_commit_audit_alloc fails, it does not
> free the adp variable.
>
> Fix this by freeing the linked list with head adl.
>
> backtrace:
> kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:591 [inline]
> kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
> nf_tables_commit_audit_alloc net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:8439 [inline]
> nf_tables_commit+0x16e/0x1760 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:8508
> nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0x512/0xa80 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:562
> nfnetlink_rcv_skb_batch net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:634 [inline]
> nfnetlink_rcv+0x1fa/0x220 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:652
> netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1314 [inline]
> netlink_unicast+0x2c7/0x3e0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1340
> netlink_sendmsg+0x36b/0x6b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1929
> sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:702 [inline]
> sock_sendmsg+0x56/0x80 net/socket.c:722
>
> Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> Fixes: c520292f29b8 ("audit: log nftables configuration change events once per table")
> Signed-off-by: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@gmail.com>
> ---
> v1->v2: fix the compile issue
> net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
> index 390d4466567f..7f45b291be13 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
> @@ -8444,6 +8444,16 @@ static int nf_tables_commit_audit_alloc(struct list_head *adl,
> return 0;
> }
>
> +static void nf_tables_commit_free(struct list_head *adl)
nf_tables_commit_audit_free?
Aside from that, there should be a followup patch (for nf-next),
adding empty inline functions in case of CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=n.
Right now it does pointless aggregation for the AUDIT=n case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-13 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-13 13:03 [PATCH v2] audit: fix memory leak in nf_tables_commit Dongliang Mu
2021-07-13 13:20 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2021-07-13 14:40 ` Dongliang Mu
2021-07-13 15:31 ` Florian Westphal
2021-07-14 2:18 ` Dongliang Mu
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