Re: [PATCH net] ethtool: fix reference leak in some *_SET handlers

From: Michal Kubecek
Date: Sun Mar 22 2020 - 16:51:16 EST


On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 01:43:56PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 21:15:51 +0100 (CET) Michal Kubecek wrote:
> > Andrew noticed that some handlers for *_SET commands leak a netdev
> > reference if required ethtool_ops callbacks do not exist. A simple
> > reproducer would be e.g.
> >
> > ip link add veth1 type veth peer name veth2
> > ethtool -s veth1 wol g
> > ip link del veth1
> >
> > Make sure dev_put() is called when ethtool_ops check fails.
>
> Fixes: e54d04e3afea ("ethtool: set message mask with DEBUG_SET request")
> Fixes: a53f3d41e4d3 ("ethtool: set link settings with LINKINFO_SET request")
> Fixes: bfbcfe2032e7 ("ethtool: set link modes related data with LINKMODES_SET request")
> Fixes: 8d425b19b305 ("ethtool: set wake-on-lan settings with WOL_SET request")

Yes, thank you, I forgot about Fixes tags.

Should I resubmit or will patchworks pick the tags from your reply?

Michal

> > Reported-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@xxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>