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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@gmail.com>
Cc: emamd001@umn.edu, smccaman@umn.edu, kjlu@umn.edu,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: qrtr: fix memory leak in qrtr_tun_read_iter
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 00:21:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190925232112.GR26530@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190925230416.20126-1-navid.emamdoost@gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 06:04:13PM -0500, Navid Emamdoost wrote:
> In qrtr_tun_read_iter we need an error handling path to appropriately
> release skb in cases of error.

Release _what_ skb?

> Signed-off-by: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@gmail.com>
> ---
>  net/qrtr/tun.c | 13 +++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/qrtr/tun.c b/net/qrtr/tun.c
> index e35869e81766..0f6e6d1d2901 100644
> --- a/net/qrtr/tun.c
> +++ b/net/qrtr/tun.c
> @@ -54,19 +54,24 @@ static ssize_t qrtr_tun_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to)
>  	int count;
>  
>  	while (!(skb = skb_dequeue(&tun->queue))) {

The body of the loop is entered only if the loop condition has
evaluated true.  In this case, it means that the value of
	!(skb = skb_dequeue(&tun->queue))
had been true, i.e. the value of
	skb = skb_dequeue(&tun->queue)
has been NULL, i.e. that skb_dequeue() has returned NULL, which had
been copied into skb.

In other words, in the body of that loop we have skb equal to NULL.

> -		if (filp->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK)
> -			return -EAGAIN;
> +		if (filp->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) {
> +			count = -EAGAIN;
> +			goto out;
> +		}
>  
>  		/* Wait until we get data or the endpoint goes away */
>  		if (wait_event_interruptible(tun->readq,
> -					     !skb_queue_empty(&tun->queue)))
> -			return -ERESTARTSYS;
> +					     !skb_queue_empty(&tun->queue))) {
> +			count = -ERESTARTSYS;
> +			goto out;
> +		}
>  	}

The meaning of that loop is fairly clear, isn't it?  Keep looking int
tun->queue until an skb shows up there.  If it's not immediately there,
fail with -EAGAIN for non-blocking files and wait on tun->readq until
some skb arrives.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-25 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-25 23:04 [PATCH] net: qrtr: fix memory leak in qrtr_tun_read_iter Navid Emamdoost
2019-09-25 23:21 ` Al Viro [this message]
2019-09-27  3:16   ` Navid Emamdoost

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