netdev - Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Fix memory leak in netdev_register

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: <4336653d-c89d-316f-a4a3-cf5438cd6715@huawei.com>
Date:   Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:47:58 +0800
From:   "wanghai (M)" <wanghai26@...wei.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
        <idosch@...lanox.com>, <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
        <tyhicks@...onical.com>, <f.fainelli@...il.com>
CC:     <amritha.nambiar@...el.com>, <joe@...ches.com>,
        <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>, <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Fix memory leak in netdev_register_kobject


在 2019/3/19 2:02, Eric Dumazet 写道:
>
> On 03/18/2019 10:06 PM, Wang Hai wrote:
>> When registering struct net_device, it will call
>> 	register_netdevice ->
>> 		netdev_register_kobject ->
>> 			device_add(dev)
>> 			register_queue_kobjects(ndev)
>>
>> If device_add(dev) or register_queue_kobjects(ndev) fails.
>> Register_netdevice() will return error, causing netdev_freemem(ndev)
>> to be called to free net_device, however (&ndev->dev)->kobj.name will
>> not be freed, resulting in a memory leak.
>>
>> syzkaller report this:
>> BUG: memory leak
>> unreferenced object 0xffff8881f4fad168 (size 8):
>> comm "syz-executor.0", pid 3575, jiffies 4294778002 (age 20.134s)
>> hex dump (first 8 bytes):
>>    77 70 61 6e 30 00 ff ff                          wpan0...
>> backtrace:
>>    [<000000006d2d91d7>] kstrdup_const+0x3d/0x50 mm/util.c:73
>>    [<00000000ba9ff953>] kvasprintf_const+0x112/0x170 lib/kasprintf.c:48
>>    [<000000005555ec09>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x55/0x130 lib/kobject.c:281
>>    [<0000000098d28ec3>] dev_set_name+0xbb/0xf0 drivers/base/core.c:1915
>>    [<00000000b7553017>] netdev_register_kobject+0xc0/0x410 net/core/net-sysfs.c:1727
>>    [<00000000c826a797>] register_netdevice+0xa51/0xeb0 net/core/dev.c:8711
>>    [<00000000857bfcfd>] cfg802154_update_iface_num.isra.2+0x13/0x90 [ieee802154]
>>    [<000000003126e453>] ieee802154_llsec_fill_key_id+0x1d5/0x570 [ieee802154]
>>    [<00000000e4b3df51>] 0xffffffffc1500e0e
>>    [<00000000b4319776>] platform_drv_probe+0xc6/0x180 drivers/base/platform.c:614
>>    [<0000000037669347>] really_probe+0x491/0x7c0 drivers/base/dd.c:509
>>    [<000000008fed8862>] driver_probe_device+0xdc/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:671
>>    [<00000000baf52041>] device_driver_attach+0xf2/0x130 drivers/base/dd.c:945
>>    [<00000000c7cc8dec>] __driver_attach+0x10e/0x210 drivers/base/dd.c:1022
>>    [<0000000057a757c2>] bus_for_each_dev+0x154/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:304
>>    [<000000005f5ae04b>] bus_add_driver+0x427/0x5e0 drivers/base/bus.c:645
>>
>> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@...wei.com>
>> Fixes: 1d24eb4815d1 ("xps: Transmit Packet Steering")
> The bug was there before this commit, right ?
>
> .

Sorry, I read the code carefully, this is a mistake, the correct fix commit is 1fa5ae857bb1(driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array). I will send a patch v2