From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43494C4332F for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2022 01:34:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S236824AbiLXBe5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Dec 2022 20:34:57 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:57548 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S236707AbiLXBdd (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Dec 2022 20:33:33 -0500 Received: from ams.source.kernel.org (ams.source.kernel.org [IPv6:2604:1380:4601:e00::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CF95044972; Fri, 23 Dec 2022 17:31:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ams.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 82782B8213E; Sat, 24 Dec 2022 01:31:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A6F9DC433D2; Sat, 24 Dec 2022 01:31:29 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1671845490; bh=8MQZTfrrxJms8zopLVZUHyP1jAlZlWx4Ag5sNXsEyms=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:From; b=JYj65W+rEFLgdlSxQUAEJtmf2G0sz63q3MtyKDCvVf+gp8eBB2w+kg6Hvqew59wO3 NcG6R+rqBVX/JxJj0v5Pyhe3f+h2vpCTBih7qUMOeAycptviVsemDGqO2P8eZ0HWQV LESHdDAPZtE/ULLJ+sK30h6X0O1N0jr7kjiPcrCLpUHKH992MYipbDPS3rXGYXxjcR hbKzEltRkkLdWPMDFQA9VBw73rYoodLKUJM+OCjA2k/B1lsdnfpOxUXyhFN390Nu0A MXljisBOe4FyLWW95z0eMGAxZBF/uvPodhsitqO43vEaRb0U3upftKYq2UrLuw65W2 Wx+7Lpj34vjiw== From: Sasha Levin To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Yang Yingliang , Luben Tuikov , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.15 01/14] kset: fix memory leak when kset_register() returns error Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 20:31:14 -0500 Message-Id: <20221224013127.393187-1-sashal@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.35.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-stable: review X-Patchwork-Hint: Ignore Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Yang Yingliang [ Upstream commit 1662cea4623f75d8251adf07370bbaa958f0355d ] Inject fault while loading module, kset_register() may fail. If it fails, the kset.kobj.name allocated by kobject_set_name() which must be called before a call to kset_register() may be leaked, since refcount of kobj was set in kset_init(). To mitigate this, we free the name in kset_register() when an error is encountered, i.e. when kset_register() returns an error. A kset may be embedded in a larger structure which may be dynamically allocated in callers, it needs to be freed in ktype.release() or error path in callers, in this case, we can not call kset_put() in kset_register(), or it will cause double free, so just call kfree_const() to free the name and set it to NULL to avoid accessing bad pointer in callers. With this fix, the callers don't need care about freeing the name and may call kset_put() if kset_register() fails. Suggested-by: Luben Tuikov Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang Reviewed-by: Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221025071549.1280528-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- lib/kobject.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index ea53b30cf483..743e629d60d2 100644 --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -866,6 +866,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kobj_sysfs_ops); /** * kset_register() - Initialize and add a kset. * @k: kset. + * + * NOTE: On error, the kset.kobj.name allocated by() kobj_set_name() + * is freed, it can not be used any more. */ int kset_register(struct kset *k) { @@ -876,8 +879,12 @@ int kset_register(struct kset *k) kset_init(k); err = kobject_add_internal(&k->kobj); - if (err) + if (err) { + kfree_const(k->kobj.name); + /* Set it to NULL to avoid accessing bad pointer in callers. */ + k->kobj.name = NULL; return err; + } kobject_uevent(&k->kobj, KOBJ_ADD); return 0; } -- 2.35.1