[PATCH 6.1 184/473] ax25: Fix reference count leak issue of net_device

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-06-06T14:15:03Z

From: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>

[ Upstream commit 36e56b1b002bb26440403053f19f9e1a8bc075b2 ]

There is a reference count leak issue of the object "net_device" in
ax25_dev_device_down(). When the ax25 device is shutting down, the
ax25_dev_device_down() drops the reference count of net_device one
or zero times depending on if we goto unlock_put or not, which will
cause memory leak.

In order to solve the above issue, decrease the reference count of
net_device after dev->ax25_ptr is set to null.

Fixes: d01ffb9eee4a ("ax25: add refcount in ax25_dev to avoid UAF bugs")
Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7ce3b23a40d9084657ba1125432f0ecc380cbc80.1715247018.git.duoming@zju.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/ax25/ax25_dev.c | 7 +------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ax25/ax25_dev.c b/net/ax25/ax25_dev.c
index dd1d616dab367..fcc64645bbf5e 100644
--- a/net/ax25/ax25_dev.c
+++ b/net/ax25/ax25_dev.c
@@ -118,15 +118,10 @@ void ax25_dev_device_down(struct net_device *dev)
list_for_each_entry(s, &ax25_dev_list, list) {
if (s == ax25_dev) {
list_del(&s->list);
- goto unlock_put;
+ break;
}
}
- dev->ax25_ptr = NULL;
- spin_unlock_bh(&ax25_dev_lock);
- ax25_dev_put(ax25_dev);
- return;

-unlock_put:
dev->ax25_ptr = NULL;
spin_unlock_bh(&ax25_dev_lock);
netdev_put(dev, &ax25_dev->dev_tracker);
--
2.43.0