netdev - Re: [PATCH net] sctp: fix memleak on err handling of stream initialization

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Date:   Tue, 17 Dec 2019 16:30:58 +0800
From:   Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
To:     Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
Cc:     network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sctp: fix memleak on err handling of stream initialization

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 9:01 AM Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
<marcelo.leitner@...il.com> wrote:
>
> syzbot reported a memory leak when an allocation fails within
> genradix_prealloc() for output streams. That's because
> genradix_prealloc() leaves initialized members initialized when the
> issue happens and SCTP stack will abort the current initialization but
> without cleaning up such members.
>
> The fix here is to always call genradix_free() when genradix_prealloc()
> fails, for output and also input streams, as it suffers from the same
> issue.
>
> Reported-by: syzbot+772d9e36c490b18d51d1@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Fixes: 2075e50caf5e ("sctp: convert to genradix")
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
> ---
>  net/sctp/stream.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/sctp/stream.c b/net/sctp/stream.c
> index df60b5ef24cbf5c6f628ab8ed88a6faaaa422b6d..e0b01bf912b3f3cdbc3f713bcfa50868e4802929 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/stream.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/stream.c
> @@ -84,8 +84,10 @@ static int sctp_stream_alloc_out(struct sctp_stream *stream, __u16 outcnt,
>                 return 0;
>
>         ret = genradix_prealloc(&stream->out, outcnt, gfp);
> -       if (ret)
> +       if (ret) {
> +               genradix_free(&stream->out);
>                 return ret;
> +       }
>
>         stream->outcnt = outcnt;
>         return 0;
> @@ -100,8 +102,10 @@ static int sctp_stream_alloc_in(struct sctp_stream *stream, __u16 incnt,
>                 return 0;
>
>         ret = genradix_prealloc(&stream->in, incnt, gfp);
> -       if (ret)
> +       if (ret) {
> +               genradix_free(&stream->in);
>                 return ret;
> +       }
>
>         stream->incnt = incnt;
>         return 0;
> --
> 2.23.0
>
Tested-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>