From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Wang Hai <wanghai26@huawei.com>,
davem@davemloft.net, idosch@mellanox.com,
alexander.h.duyck@intel.com, tyhicks@canonical.com,
f.fainelli@gmail.com
Cc: amritha.nambiar@intel.com, joe@perches.com,
dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Fix memory leak in netdev_register_kobject
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 11:02:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81c3db69-4589-97c7-960b-96812e6901d0@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190319050657.61327-1-wanghai26@huawei.com>
On 03/18/2019 10:06 PM, Wang Hai wrote:
> When registering struct net_device, it will call
> register_netdevice ->
> netdev_register_kobject ->
> device_add(dev)
> register_queue_kobjects(ndev)
>
> If device_add(dev) or register_queue_kobjects(ndev) fails.
> Register_netdevice() will return error, causing netdev_freemem(ndev)
> to be called to free net_device, however (&ndev->dev)->kobj.name will
> not be freed, resulting in a memory leak.
>
> syzkaller report this:
> BUG: memory leak
> unreferenced object 0xffff8881f4fad168 (size 8):
> comm "syz-executor.0", pid 3575, jiffies 4294778002 (age 20.134s)
> hex dump (first 8 bytes):
> 77 70 61 6e 30 00 ff ff wpan0...
> backtrace:
> [<000000006d2d91d7>] kstrdup_const+0x3d/0x50 mm/util.c:73
> [<00000000ba9ff953>] kvasprintf_const+0x112/0x170 lib/kasprintf.c:48
> [<000000005555ec09>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x55/0x130 lib/kobject.c:281
> [<0000000098d28ec3>] dev_set_name+0xbb/0xf0 drivers/base/core.c:1915
> [<00000000b7553017>] netdev_register_kobject+0xc0/0x410 net/core/net-sysfs.c:1727
> [<00000000c826a797>] register_netdevice+0xa51/0xeb0 net/core/dev.c:8711
> [<00000000857bfcfd>] cfg802154_update_iface_num.isra.2+0x13/0x90 [ieee802154]
> [<000000003126e453>] ieee802154_llsec_fill_key_id+0x1d5/0x570 [ieee802154]
> [<00000000e4b3df51>] 0xffffffffc1500e0e
> [<00000000b4319776>] platform_drv_probe+0xc6/0x180 drivers/base/platform.c:614
> [<0000000037669347>] really_probe+0x491/0x7c0 drivers/base/dd.c:509
> [<000000008fed8862>] driver_probe_device+0xdc/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:671
> [<00000000baf52041>] device_driver_attach+0xf2/0x130 drivers/base/dd.c:945
> [<00000000c7cc8dec>] __driver_attach+0x10e/0x210 drivers/base/dd.c:1022
> [<0000000057a757c2>] bus_for_each_dev+0x154/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:304
> [<000000005f5ae04b>] bus_add_driver+0x427/0x5e0 drivers/base/bus.c:645
>
> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
> Fixes: 1d24eb4815d1 ("xps: Transmit Packet Steering")
The bug was there before this commit, right ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-18 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-19 5:06 [PATCH] net-sysfs: Fix memory leak in netdev_register_kobject Wang Hai
2019-03-18 15:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-03-18 16:19 ` Andy Shevchenko
[not found] ` <c1c266af-7aaa-00a7-aa7a-e61c65665741@huawei.com>
2019-03-19 10:30 ` Andy Shevchenko
[not found] ` <18553079-7bbd-fcfe-ef1c-6717e963e0a5@huawei.com>
2019-03-19 14:00 ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-03-19 15:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-03-19 3:03 ` wanghai (M)
2019-03-19 3:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-03-19 3:39 ` wanghai (M)
2019-03-19 10:22 ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-03-18 18:02 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2019-03-19 3:47 ` wanghai (M)
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