linux-kernel - [PATCH net] batman-adv: Fix batadv_v_ogm_aggr

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Message-Id: <20230809152913.27218-1-repk@triplefau.lt>
Date:   Wed,  9 Aug 2023 17:29:13 +0200
From:   Remi Pommarel <repk@...plefau.lt>
To:     Marek Lindner <mareklindner@...mailbox.ch>,
        Simon Wunderlich <sw@...onwunderlich.de>,
        Antonio Quartulli <a@...table.cc>,
        Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Remi Pommarel <repk@...plefau.lt>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] batman-adv: Fix batadv_v_ogm_aggr_send memory leak

When batadv_v_ogm_aggr_send is called for an inactive interface, the skb
is silently dropped by batadv_v_ogm_send_to_if() but never freed causing
the following memory leak:

  unreferenced object 0xffff00000c164800 (size 512):
    comm "kworker/u8:1", pid 2648, jiffies 4295122303 (age 97.656s)
    hex dump (first 32 bytes):
      00 80 af 09 00 00 ff ff e1 09 00 00 75 01 60 83  ............u.`.
      1f 00 00 00 b8 00 00 00 15 00 05 00 da e3 d3 64  ...............d
    backtrace:
      [<0000000007ad20f6>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1a8/0x310
      [<00000000d1029e55>] kmalloc_reserve.constprop.0+0x70/0x13c
      [<000000008b9d4183>] __alloc_skb+0xec/0x1fc
      [<00000000c7af5051>] __netdev_alloc_skb+0x48/0x23c
      [<00000000642ee5f5>] batadv_v_ogm_aggr_send+0x50/0x36c
      [<0000000088660bd7>] batadv_v_ogm_aggr_work+0x24/0x40
      [<0000000042fc2606>] process_one_work+0x3b0/0x610
      [<000000002f2a0b1c>] worker_thread+0xa0/0x690
      [<0000000059fae5d4>] kthread+0x1fc/0x210
      [<000000000c587d3a>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Free the skb in that case to fix this leak.

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Fixes: 0da0035942d4 ("batman-adv: OGMv2 - add basic infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Remi Pommarel <repk@...plefau.lt>
---
 net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c b/net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c
index e710e9afe78f..445b06fc0d90 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c
@@ -123,8 +123,10 @@ static void batadv_v_ogm_send_to_if(struct sk_buff *skb,
 {
 	struct batadv_priv *bat_priv = netdev_priv(hard_iface->soft_iface);
 
-	if (hard_iface->if_status != BATADV_IF_ACTIVE)
+	if (hard_iface->if_status != BATADV_IF_ACTIVE) {
+		kfree_skb(skb);
 		return;
+	}
 
 	batadv_inc_counter(bat_priv, BATADV_CNT_MGMT_TX);
 	batadv_add_counter(bat_priv, BATADV_CNT_MGMT_TX_BYTES,
-- 
2.40.0