[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 5/9] slip: Fix memory leak in slip_open error path

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Fri Nov 22 2019 - 14:50:28 EST


From: Jouni Hogander <jouni.hogander@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 3b5a39979dafea9d0cd69c7ae06088f7a84cdafa ]

Driver/net/can/slcan.c is derived from slip.c. Memory leak was detected
by Syzkaller in slcan. Same issue exists in slip.c and this patch is
addressing the leak in slip.c.

Here is the slcan memory leak trace reported by Syzkaller:

BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff888067f65500 (size 4096):
comm "syz-executor043", pid 454, jiffies 4294759719 (age 11.930s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
73 6c 63 61 6e 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 slcan0..........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<00000000a06eec0d>] __kmalloc+0x18b/0x2c0
[<0000000083306e66>] kvmalloc_node+0x3a/0xc0
[<000000006ac27f87>] alloc_netdev_mqs+0x17a/0x1080
[<0000000061a996c9>] slcan_open+0x3ae/0x9a0
[<000000001226f0f9>] tty_ldisc_open.isra.1+0x76/0xc0
[<0000000019289631>] tty_set_ldisc+0x28c/0x5f0
[<000000004de5a617>] tty_ioctl+0x48d/0x1590
[<00000000daef496f>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x1c7/0x1510
[<0000000059068dbc>] ksys_ioctl+0x99/0xb0
[<000000009a6eb334>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x78/0xb0
[<0000000053d0332e>] do_syscall_64+0x16f/0x580
[<0000000021b83b99>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
[<000000008ea75434>] 0xfffffffffffffff

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Hogander <jouni.hogander@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/slip/slip.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/slip/slip.c b/drivers/net/slip/slip.c
index a17d86a577347..d34bdd2f7ac78 100644
--- a/drivers/net/slip/slip.c
+++ b/drivers/net/slip/slip.c
@@ -860,6 +860,7 @@ static int slip_open(struct tty_struct *tty)
sl->tty = NULL;
tty->disc_data = NULL;
clear_bit(SLF_INUSE, &sl->flags);
+ free_netdev(sl->dev);

err_exit:
rtnl_unlock();
--
2.20.1