[PATCH 5.8 47/70] tipc: fix memory leak caused by tipc_buf_append()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-10-31T11:42:01Z

From: Tung Nguyen <tung.q.nguyen@dektech.com.au>

[ Upstream commit ceb1eb2fb609c88363e06618b8d4bbf7815a4e03 ]

Commit ed42989eab57 ("tipc: fix the skb_unshare() in tipc_buf_append()")
replaced skb_unshare() with skb_copy() to not reduce the data reference
counter of the original skb intentionally. This is not the correct
way to handle the cloned skb because it causes memory leak in 2
following cases:
1/ Sending multicast messages via broadcast link
The original skb list is cloned to the local skb list for local
destination. After that, the data reference counter of each skb
in the original list has the value of 2. This causes each skb not
to be freed after receiving ACK:
tipc_link_advance_transmq()
{
...
/* release skb */
__skb_unlink(skb, &l->transmq);
kfree_skb(skb); <-- memory exists after being freed
}

2/ Sending multicast messages via replicast link
Similar to the above case, each skb cannot be freed after purging
the skb list:
tipc_mcast_xmit()
{
...
__skb_queue_purge(pkts); <-- memory exists after being freed
}

This commit fixes this issue by using skb_unshare() instead. Besides,
to avoid use-after-free error reported by KASAN, the pointer to the
fragment is set to NULL before calling skb_unshare() to make sure that
the original skb is not freed after freeing the fragment 2 times in
case skb_unshare() returns NULL.

Fixes: ed42989eab57 ("tipc: fix the skb_unshare() in tipc_buf_append()")
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Thang Hoang Ngo <thang.h.ngo@dektech.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Tung Nguyen <tung.q.nguyen@dektech.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201027032403.1823-1-tung.q.nguyen@dektech.com.au
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/tipc/msg.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/net/tipc/msg.c
+++ b/net/tipc/msg.c
@@ -150,12 +150,11 @@ int tipc_buf_append(struct sk_buff **hea
if (fragid == FIRST_FRAGMENT) {
if (unlikely(head))
goto err;
- if (skb_cloned(frag))
- frag = skb_copy(frag, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ *buf = NULL;
+ frag = skb_unshare(frag, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (unlikely(!frag))
goto err;
head = *headbuf = frag;
- *buf = NULL;
TIPC_SKB_CB(head)->tail = NULL;
if (skb_is_nonlinear(head)) {
skb_walk_frags(head, tail) {