Re: [PATCH 4.19 10/61] sctp: Free cookie before we memdup a new one

[Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>]

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Hi!

On Thu 2019-06-20 19:57:05, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit ce950f1050cece5e406a5cde723c69bba60e1b26 ]
> 
> Based on comments from Xin, even after fixes for our recent syzbot
> report of cookie memory leaks, its possible to get a resend of an INIT
> chunk which would lead to us leaking cookie memory.
> 

> --- a/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
> @@ -2600,6 +2600,8 @@ do_addr_param:
>  	case SCTP_PARAM_STATE_COOKIE:
>  		asoc->peer.cookie_len =
>  			ntohs(param.p->length) - sizeof(struct sctp_paramhdr);
> +		if (asoc->peer.cookie)
> +			kfree(asoc->peer.cookie);
>  		asoc->peer.cookie = kmemdup(param.cookie->body, asoc->peer.cookie_len, gfp);
>  		if (!asoc->peer.cookie)
>  			retval = 0;

kfree() handles NULL just fine. Can we simply work without the tests
and save a bit of code?

										Pavel
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