netdev - [PATCH 09/10] batman-adv: avoid double free when orig

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <1392670129-2498-10-git-send-email-antonio@meshcoding.com>
Date:	Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:48:48 +0100
From:	Antonio Quartulli <antonio@...hcoding.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org,
	Antonio Quartulli <antonio@...hcoding.com>,
	Marek Lindner <mareklindner@...mailbox.ch>
Subject: [PATCH 09/10] batman-adv: avoid double free when orig_node initialization fails

In the failure path of the orig_node initialization routine
the orig_node->bat_iv.bcast_own field is free'd twice: first
in batadv_iv_ogm_orig_get() and then later in
batadv_orig_node_free_rcu().

Fix it by removing the kfree in batadv_iv_ogm_orig_get().

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@...hcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@...mailbox.ch>
---
 net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c b/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c
index 42cbc0a..8323bce 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c
@@ -241,18 +241,16 @@ batadv_iv_ogm_orig_get(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, const uint8_t *addr)
 	size = bat_priv->num_ifaces * sizeof(uint8_t);
 	orig_node->bat_iv.bcast_own_sum = kzalloc(size, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!orig_node->bat_iv.bcast_own_sum)
-		goto free_bcast_own;
+		goto free_orig_node;
 
 	hash_added = batadv_hash_add(bat_priv->orig_hash, batadv_compare_orig,
 				     batadv_choose_orig, orig_node,
 				     &orig_node->hash_entry);
 	if (hash_added != 0)
-		goto free_bcast_own;
+		goto free_orig_node;
 
 	return orig_node;
 
-free_bcast_own:
-	kfree(orig_node->bat_iv.bcast_own);
 free_orig_node:
 	/* free twice, as batadv_orig_node_new sets refcount to 2 */
 	batadv_orig_node_free_ref(orig_node);
-- 
1.8.5.3

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html