linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] netfilter: ipt_CLUSTERIP: fix refcount leak in clusterip_tg

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Message-ID: <Yda5AhpTTnsTnNp5@salvia>
Date:   Thu, 6 Jan 2022 10:40:18 +0100
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     Xin Xiong <xiongx18@...an.edu.cn>
Cc:     Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        yuanxzhang@...an.edu.cn, Xiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@...an.edu.cn>,
        Xin Tan <tanxin.ctf@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: ipt_CLUSTERIP: fix refcount leak in
 clusterip_tg_check()

On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 10:48:12AM +0800, Xin Xiong wrote:
> The issue takes place in one error path of clusterip_tg_check(). When
> memcmp() returns nonzero, the function simply returns the error code,
> forgetting to decrease the reference count of a clusterip_config
> object, which is bumped earlier by clusterip_config_find_get(). This
> may incur reference count leak.
> 
> Fix this issue by decrementing the refcount of the object in specific
> error path.

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