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 F273CC433F5 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2021 02:03:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234819AbhLUCD3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2021 21:03:29 -0500 Received: from ams.source.kernel.org ([145.40.68.75]:33980 "EHLO ams.source.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S235012AbhLUCBv (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2021 21:01:51 -0500 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 5B0C1B810D9; Tue, 21 Dec 2021 02:01:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1C33DC36AE5; Tue, 21 Dec 2021 02:01:48 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1640052109; bh=jbxEwRb/fbXSkaxWzd+I2HNEZQwXHzJUmpIokbaeGvE=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=Yfs911dv2B1vIZylpoUd6pkuPa/CnwjQwV1FzV+JtIL8ovt5iRDOqJc2NujRfpWzp JNGkJd7XSfnO3jaDUoJECnTXwt8s16p2xLrwfmnO7PCkyCJWzq8NYyzgoLSFGaKPgY kk2P9e2oz9LyM9LVhj4+aPZwwnBtGnIhGNm2W5u60EJbh0+8oeNvmyUma4b09daov/ kxzVeizV2krYdBMeJY0BY/jY8CjVYTye+hjrzsn4fDrwx4x4ckA9tdmxyouaUDAgY4 Oi+6zi1Rc/65YKhAcj3TRiuRKEsqR/iYUnfSXD3Edf1l/QxF2f6HEutD/xQDdlpw5e N4mqvrFBkezZA== From: Sasha Levin To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ahmed Zaki , Johannes Berg , Sasha Levin , johannes@sipsolutions.net, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 3/9] mac80211: fix a memory leak where sta_info is not freed Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 21:01:17 -0500 Message-Id: <20211221020123.117380-3-sashal@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.34.1 In-Reply-To: <20211221020123.117380-1-sashal@kernel.org> References: <20211221020123.117380-1-sashal@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-stable: review X-Patchwork-Hint: Ignore Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org From: Ahmed Zaki [ Upstream commit 8f9dcc29566626f683843ccac6113a12208315ca ] The following is from a system that went OOM due to a memory leak: wlan0: Allocated STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 wlan0: Allocated STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 wlan0: IBSS finish 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 (---from ieee80211_ibss_add_sta) wlan0: Adding new IBSS station 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 wlan0: moving STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 to state 2 wlan0: moving STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 to state 3 wlan0: Inserted STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 wlan0: IBSS finish 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 (---from ieee80211_ibss_work) wlan0: Adding new IBSS station 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 wlan0: moving STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 to state 2 wlan0: moving STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 to state 3 . . wlan0: expiring inactive not authorized STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 wlan0: moving STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 to state 2 wlan0: moving STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 to state 1 wlan0: Removed STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 wlan0: Destroyed STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 The ieee80211_ibss_finish_sta() is called twice on the same STA from 2 different locations. On the second attempt, the allocated STA is not destroyed creating a kernel memory leak. This is happening because sta_info_insert_finish() does not call sta_info_free() the second time when the STA already exists (returns -EEXIST). Note that the caller sta_info_insert_rcu() assumes STA is destroyed upon errors. Same fix is applied to -ENOMEM. Signed-off-by: Ahmed Zaki Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211002145329.3125293-1-anzaki@gmail.com [change the error path label to use the existing code] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c index 0d5265adf5396..764175c0222dd 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c +++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c @@ -554,13 +554,13 @@ static int sta_info_insert_finish(struct sta_info *sta) __acquires(RCU) /* check if STA exists already */ if (sta_info_get_bss(sdata, sta->sta.addr)) { err = -EEXIST; - goto out_err; + goto out_cleanup; } sinfo = kzalloc(sizeof(struct station_info), GFP_KERNEL); if (!sinfo) { err = -ENOMEM; - goto out_err; + goto out_cleanup; } local->num_sta++; @@ -609,8 +609,8 @@ static int sta_info_insert_finish(struct sta_info *sta) __acquires(RCU) out_drop_sta: local->num_sta--; synchronize_net(); + out_cleanup: cleanup_single_sta(sta); - out_err: mutex_unlock(&local->sta_mtx); kfree(sinfo); rcu_read_lock(); -- 2.34.1