netdev - [PATCH net v2 4/7] net/sched: fix idr leak in the error path of tcp_pedit

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Date:   Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:31:25 +0100
From:   Davide Caratti <dcaratti@...hat.com>
To:     Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net v2 4/7] net/sched: fix idr leak in the error path of tcp_pedit_init()

tcf_pedit_init() can fail to allocate 'keys' after the idr has been
successfully reserved. When this happens, subsequent attempts to configure
a pedit rule using the same idr value systematically fail with -ENOSPC:

 # tc action add action pedit munge ip ttl set 63 index 100
 RTNETLINK answers: Cannot allocate memory
 We have an error talking to the kernel
 # tc action add action pedit munge ip ttl set 63 index 100
 RTNETLINK answers: No space left on device
 We have an error talking to the kernel
 # tc action add action pedit munge ip ttl set 63 index 100
 RTNETLINK answers: No space left on device
 We have an error talking to the kernel
 ...

Fix this in the error path of tcf_act_pedit_init(), calling
tcf_idr_release() in place of tcf_idr_cleanup().

Fixes: 65a206c01e8e ("net/sched: Change act_api and act_xxx modules to use IDR")
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@...hat.com>
---
 net/sched/act_pedit.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/act_pedit.c b/net/sched/act_pedit.c
index 349beaffb29e..fef08835f26d 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_pedit.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_pedit.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static int tcf_pedit_init(struct net *net, struct nlattr *nla,
 		p = to_pedit(*a);
 		keys = kmalloc(ksize, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (keys == NULL) {
-			tcf_idr_cleanup(*a, est);
+			tcf_idr_release(*a, bind);
 			kfree(keys_ex);
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		}
-- 
2.14.3