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

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Message-ID: <CAAKgYky4M_XjXRH9ieJ1SO=XjFbr26Aya1gUTUE-CWrVeRTJrQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 23:03:07 +0900
From: Takeshi Misawa <jeantsuru.cumc.mandola@...il.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, 
	Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...e.dk>, 
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
	Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@...eros.com>, Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@...eros.com>, 
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>, Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@...eros.com>, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [net] Fix memory leak in htc_connect_service

Thank you for your advice.
I will resend the modified patch later.

Regards,


On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 5:57 PM Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Takeshi Misawa <jeantsuru.cumc.mandola@...il.com> writes:
>
> > Timeout occurs in htc_connect_service(), then this function returns
> > without freeing skb.
> >
> > Fix this by going to err path.
> >
> > syzbot report:
> > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=fbf138952d6c1115ba7d797cf7d56f6935184e3f
> > BUG: memory leak
> > unreferenced object 0xffff88810a980800 (size 240):
> >   comm "kworker/1:1", pid 24, jiffies 4294947427 (age 16.220s)
> >   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 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> >   backtrace:
> >     [<ffffffff83b971c6>] __alloc_skb+0x206/0x270 net/core/skbuff.c:552
> >     [<ffffffff82eb3731>] alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1270 [inline]
> >     [<ffffffff82eb3731>] htc_connect_service+0x121/0x230 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:259
> >     [<ffffffff82ec03a5>] ath9k_htc_connect_svc drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c:137 [inline]
> >     [<ffffffff82ec03a5>] ath9k_init_htc_services.constprop.0+0xe5/0x390 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c:157
> >     [<ffffffff82ec0747>] ath9k_htc_probe_device+0xf7/0x8a0 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c:959
> >     [<ffffffff82eb3ef5>] ath9k_htc_hw_init+0x35/0x60 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:521
> >     [<ffffffff82eb68dd>] ath9k_hif_usb_firmware_cb+0xcd/0x1f0 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:1243
> >     [<ffffffff82aa835b>] request_firmware_work_func+0x4b/0x90 drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:1107
> >     [<ffffffff8129a35a>] process_one_work+0x2ba/0x5f0 kernel/workqueue.c:2289
> >     [<ffffffff8129ac7d>] worker_thread+0x5d/0x5b0 kernel/workqueue.c:2436
> >     [<ffffffff812a4fa9>] kthread+0x129/0x170 kernel/kthread.c:376
> >     [<ffffffff81002dcf>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:308
> >
> > Fixes: fb9987d0f748 ("ath9k_htc: Support for AR9271 chipset.")
> > Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+b68fbebe56d8362907e8@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> > Signed-off-by: Takeshi Misawa <jeantsuru.cumc.mandola@...il.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> The title should begin with "wifi: ath9k:", see more info from the wiki
> link below.
>
> Also ath9k patches go to ath-next, not to the net tree.
>
> --
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/
>
> https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches