linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] veth: fix memory leak in veth

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Message-ID: <20200831005133.GA3295@thinkpad>
Date:   Sun, 30 Aug 2020 17:51:33 -0700
From:   Rustam Kovhaev <rkovhaev@...il.com>
To:     Toshiaki Makita <toshiaki.makita1@...il.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] veth: fix memory leak in veth_newlink()

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 09:16:32AM +0900, Toshiaki Makita wrote:
> On 2020/08/30 22:13, Rustam Kovhaev wrote:
> > when register_netdevice(dev) fails we should check whether struct
> > veth_rq has been allocated via ndo_init callback and free it, because,
> > depending on the code path, register_netdevice() might not call
> > priv_destructor() callback
> 
> AFAICS, register_netdevice() always goto err_uninit and calls priv_destructor()
> on failure after ndo_init() succeeded.
> So I could not find such a code path.
> Would you elaborate on it?

in net/core/dev.c:9863, where register_netdevice() calls rollback_registered(),
which does not call priv_destructor(), then register_netdevice() returns error
net/core/dev.c:9884