linux-kernel - [PATCH] net: macsec: fix potential resource leak in macsec_add_rxsa() and macsec_add

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Message-Id: <20220704123304.2239147-1-niejianglei2021@163.com>
Date:   Mon,  4 Jul 2022 20:33:04 +0800
From:   Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@....com>
To:     davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
        pabeni@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@....com>
Subject: [PATCH] net: macsec: fix potential resource leak in macsec_add_rxsa() and macsec_add_txsa()

init_rx_sa() allocates relevant resource for rx_sa->stats and rx_sa->
key.tfm with alloc_percpu() and macsec_alloc_tfm(). When some error
occurs after init_rx_sa() is called in macsec_add_rxsa(), the function
released rx_sa with kfree() without releasing rx_sa->stats and rx_sa->
key.tfm, which will lead to a resource leak.

We should call macsec_rxsa_put() instead of kfree() to decrease the ref
count of rx_sa and release the relevant resource if the refcount is 0.
The same bug exists in macsec_add_txsa() for tx_sa as well. This patch
fixes the above two bugs.

Signed-off-by: Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@....com>
---
 drivers/net/macsec.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/macsec.c b/drivers/net/macsec.c
index 817577e713d7..ac3ff624a8dd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macsec.c
@@ -1842,7 +1842,7 @@ static int macsec_add_rxsa(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 	return 0;

 cleanup:
-	kfree(rx_sa);
+	macsec_rxsa_put(rx_sa);
 	rtnl_unlock();
 	return err;
 }
@@ -2085,7 +2085,7 @@ static int macsec_add_txsa(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)

 cleanup:
 	secy->operational = was_operational;
-	kfree(tx_sa);
+	macsec_txsa_put(tx_sa);
 	rtnl_unlock();
 	return err;
 }
-- 
2.25.1