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

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Date:   Tue, 01 Sep 2020 13:01:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     rkovhaev@...il.com
Cc:     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()

From: Rustam Kovhaev <rkovhaev@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 06:13:36 -0700

> 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
> 
> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+59ef240dd8f0ed7598a8@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=59ef240dd8f0ed7598a8
> Signed-off-by: Rustam Kovhaev <rkovhaev@...il.com>

I think I agree with Toshiaki here.  There is no reason why the
rollback_registered() path of register_netdevice() should behave
differently from the normal control flow.

Any code path that invokes ->ndo_uninit() should probably also
invoke the priv destructor.

The question is why does the err_uninit: label of register_netdevice
behave differently from rollback_registered()?  If there is a reason,
it should be documented in a comment or similar.  If it is wrong,
it should be corrected.