netdev - Re: net: memory leak in ip_cmsg

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Date:	Thu, 04 Feb 2016 06:04:13 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
	syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: net: memory leak in ip_cmsg_send

On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 10:47 +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've hit the following memory leak while running syzkaller fuzzer:
> 
> unreferenced object 0xffff88002ea39708 (size 64):
>   comm "syz-executor", pid 19887, jiffies 4295848369 (age 8.676s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 04 00 00 00  ................
>   backtrace:
>     [<     inline     >] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:607
>     [<     inline     >] ip_options_get_alloc net/ipv4/ip_options.c:515
>     [<ffffffff85836ea4>] ip_options_get+0x34/0x90 net/ipv4/ip_options.c:551
>     [<ffffffff8584924d>] ip_cmsg_send+0x5bd/0x6f0 net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:252
>     [<ffffffff858e8502>] raw_sendmsg+0xa52/0x25a0 net/ieee802154/socket.c:738
>     [<ffffffff859246e7>] inet_sendmsg+0x2f7/0x4c0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:736
>     [<     inline     >] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:611
>     [<ffffffff854cdffa>] sock_sendmsg+0xca/0x110 net/socket.c:621
>     [<ffffffff854cfe3a>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x72a/0x840 net/socket.c:1947
>     [<ffffffff854d1e0e>] __sys_sendmsg+0xce/0x170 net/socket.c:1981
>     [<     inline     >] SYSC_sendmsg net/socket.c:1992
>     [<ffffffff854d1edd>] SyS_sendmsg+0x2d/0x50 net/socket.c:1988
> 
> ip_cmsg_send seems to forget to free ipc->opt when it returns an error
> (all callers expect that there is nothing to cleanup if it returns an
> error).
> 
> On commit 34229b277480f46c1e9a19f027f30b074512e68b.

Hmmm... thanks for the report, I am testing a patch.