linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] wifi: ath9k: hif_usb: fix memory leak of remain

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Date:   Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:05:59 +0100
From:   Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...e.dk>
To:     Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@...ras.ru>
Cc:     Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
        Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@...eros.com>,
        Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@...eros.com>,
        Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@...eros.com>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@...ras.ru>,
        lvc-project@...uxtesting.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] wifi: ath9k: hif_usb: fix memory leak of remain_skbs

Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@...ras.ru> writes:

> On 16.02.2023 19:15, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>  > Erm, does this actually fix the leak? AFAICT, ath9k_hif_usb_dev_deinit()
>  > is only called on the error path of ath9k_hif_usb_firmware_cb(), not
>  > when the device is subsequently torn down in
>  > ath9k_htc_disconnect_device()?
>
> ath9k_hif_usb_dev_deinit() is also called inside
> ath9k_hif_usb_disconnect().

No it's not, as of:

f099c5c9e2ba ("wifi: ath9k: Fix use-after-free in ath9k_hif_usb_disconnect()")

I guess you're looking at an older tree? Please base your patches on an
up-to-date ath-next tree.

> I see it to be the only place wherehif_dev is freed (apart from an
> early error path), so the current patchimplementation actually fixes
> the leak. However, as you have noticed, itis not probably the best
> place to put the deallocation: we need to clearthe cached skb not only
> when freeing the device but in urbs deallocationcase, too - in order
> to avoid its irrelevant processing later.
>
>  > I think the right place to put this is probably inside
>  > ath9k_hif_usb_dealloc_urbs()? That gets called on USB suspend as well,
>  > but it seems to me that if we're suspending the device to an extent that
>  > we're deallocating the urbs, we should be clearing out the cached skb in
>  > remain_skb anyway?
>  >
>  > -Toke
>
> Thank you for the advice! As I can see, remain_skb makes sense when
> receiving two consecutive urbs which are logically linked together, i.e.
> a specific data field from the first skb indicates a cached skb to be
> allocated, memcpy'd with some data and subsequently processed in the
> next call to rx callback (see 6ce708f54cc8 ("ath9k: Fix out-of-bound
> memcpy in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream")). Urbs deallocation, I suppose,
> makes that link irrelevant.
>
> So I agree with you that remain_skb freeing should be done when
> deallocating the urbs. I would just place that specifically into
> ath9k_hif_usb_dealloc_rx_urbs() as remain_skb is associated with rx
> urbs.

SGTM.

> RX_STAT_INC(hif_dev, skb_dropped), I think, should be also called when
> freeing afilled remain_skb?

Well, if this is mostly something that happens if the device is going
away I'm not sure that anyone will actually see that; but I suppose if
it happens on suspend, the stat increase may be useful, and it shouldn't
hurt otherwise, so sure, let's add that :)

-Toke