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* [bug report] devlink: Add support for resource abstraction
@ 2018-09-19 12:01 Dan Carpenter
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From: Dan Carpenter @ 2018-09-19 12:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
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[ It's weird that I didn't send this email earlier - dan ]

Hello Arkadi Sharshevsky,

The patch d9f9b9a4d05f: "devlink: Add support for resource
abstraction" from Jan 15, 2018, leads to the following static checker
warning:

	net/core/devlink.c:2604 devlink_resource_fill()
	error: double free of 'skb'

net/core/devlink.c
  2582                  }
  2583                  i++;
  2584          }
  2585          nla_nest_end(skb, resources_attr);
  2586          genlmsg_end(skb, hdr);
  2587          if (incomplete)
  2588                  goto start_again;
  2589  send_done:
  2590          nlh = nlmsg_put(skb, info->snd_portid, info->snd_seq,
  2591                          NLMSG_DONE, 0, flags | NLM_F_MULTI);
  2592          if (!nlh) {
  2593                  err = devlink_dpipe_send_and_alloc_skb(&skb, info);
                                                               ^^^^
Smatch says that some error paths free *pskb.  This seems like a legit
thing.  Of course, kfree_skb() only really frees it after we drop
the last reference and I don't know how the refcounting works here.

  2594                  if (err)
  2595                          goto err_skb_send_alloc;
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  2596                  goto send_done;
  2597          }
  2598          return genlmsg_reply(skb, info);
  2599  
  2600  nla_put_failure:
  2601          err = -EMSGSIZE;
  2602  err_resource_put:
  2603  err_skb_send_alloc:
  2604          nlmsg_free(skb);
                           ^^^
  2605          return err;
  2606  }

regards,
dan carpenter

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