linux-kernel - [PATCH] bpftool: Fix memory leak in dump_link

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Message-Id: <20250619031037.39068-1-chenyuan_fl@163.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 11:10:37 +0800
From: chenyuan <chenyuan_fl@....com>
To: ast@...nel.org,
	andrii@...nel.org
Cc: bpf@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	chenyuan_fl@....com,
	chenyuan <chenyuan@...inos.cn>
Subject: [PATCH] bpftool: Fix memory leak in dump_link_nlmsg on realloc failure

From: chenyuan <chenyuan@...inos.cn>

In function dump_link_nlmsg(), when realloc() fails to allocate memory,
the original pointer to the buffer is overwritten with NULL. This causes
a memory leak because the previously allocated buffer becomes unreachable
without being freed.

Fix: 7900efc19214 ("tools/bpf: bpftool: improve output format for bpftool net")
Signed-off-by: chenyuan <chenyuan@...inos.cn>
---
 tools/bpf/bpftool/net.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/net.c b/tools/bpf/bpftool/net.c
index 64f958f437b0..e00637b85e56 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/net.c
+++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/net.c
@@ -366,17 +366,18 @@ static int dump_link_nlmsg(void *cookie, void *msg, struct nlattr **tb)
 {
 	struct bpf_netdev_t *netinfo = cookie;
 	struct ifinfomsg *ifinfo = msg;
+	struct ip_devname_ifindex *tmp;
 
 	if (netinfo->filter_idx > 0 && netinfo->filter_idx != ifinfo->ifi_index)
 		return 0;
 
 	if (netinfo->used_len == netinfo->array_len) {
-		netinfo->devices = realloc(netinfo->devices,
-			(netinfo->array_len + 16) *
+		tmp = realloc(netinfo->devices, (netinfo->array_len + 16) *
 			sizeof(struct ip_devname_ifindex));
-		if (!netinfo->devices)
+		if (!tmp)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
+		netinfo->devices = tmp;
 		netinfo->array_len += 16;
 	}
 	netinfo->devices[netinfo->used_len].ifindex = ifinfo->ifi_index;
-- 
2.25.1