netdev - [PATCH] tcp: cookie transactions setsockopt memory leak

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Date:	Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:59:36 +0400
From:	Dmitry Popov <dp@...hloadlab.com>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	"Pekka Savola (ipv6)" <pekkas@...core.fi>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Steven J. Magnani" <steve@...idescorp.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tcp: cookie transactions setsockopt memory leak

From: Dmitry Popov <dp@...hloadlab.com>

There is a bug in do_tcp_setsockopt(net/ipv4/tcp.c),
TCP_COOKIE_TRANSACTIONS case.
In some cases (when tp->cookie_values == NULL) new tcp_cookie_values
structure can be allocated (at cvp), but not bound to
tp->cookie_values. So a memory leak occurs.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Popov <dp@...hloadlab.com>
---
tp->cookie_values can be NULL if socket was initialized with
sysctl_tcp_cookie_size == 0 (tcp_v4_init_sock, net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c)
Buggy releases: 2.6.33+ (since commit e56fb50f2b7958b931c8a2fc0966061b3f3c8f3a)

 net/ipv4/tcp.c |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 83d0213..9c490a1 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -2179,6 +2179,8 @@ static int do_tcp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level,
 				      GFP_KERNEL);
 			if (cvp == NULL)
 				return -ENOMEM;
+
+			kref_init(&cvp->kref);
 		}
 		lock_sock(sk);
 		tp->rx_opt.cookie_in_always =
@@ -2193,12 +2195,11 @@ static int do_tcp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level,
 				 */
 				kref_put(&tp->cookie_values->kref,
 					 tcp_cookie_values_release);
-				kref_init(&cvp->kref);
-				tp->cookie_values = cvp;
 			} else {
 				cvp = tp->cookie_values;
 			}
 		}
+
 		if (cvp != NULL) {
 			cvp->cookie_desired = ctd.tcpct_cookie_desired;

@@ -2212,6 +2213,8 @@ static int do_tcp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level,
 				cvp->s_data_desired = ctd.tcpct_s_data_desired;
 				cvp->s_data_constant = 0; /* false */
 			}
+
+			tp->cookie_values = cvp;
 		}
 		release_sock(sk);
 		return err;
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