2022-07-22 10:11:41

by Jianglei Nie

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Subject: [PATCH] net: macsec: fix potential resource leak in macsec_add_rxsa() and macsec_add_txsa()

init_rx_sa() allocates relevant resource for rx_sa->stats and rx_sa->
key.tfm with alloc_percpu() and macsec_alloc_tfm(). When some error
occurs after init_rx_sa() is called in macsec_add_rxsa(), the function
released rx_sa with kfree() without releasing rx_sa->stats and rx_sa->
key.tfm, which will lead to a resource leak.

We should call macsec_rxsa_put() instead of kfree() to decrease the ref
count of rx_sa and release the relevant resource if the refcount is 0.
The same bug exists in macsec_add_txsa() for tx_sa as well. This patch
fixes the above two bugs.

Fixes: 3cf3227a21d1 ("net: macsec: hardware offloading infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Jianglei Nie <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/macsec.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/macsec.c b/drivers/net/macsec.c
index 817577e713d7..ac3ff624a8dd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macsec.c
@@ -1842,7 +1842,7 @@ static int macsec_add_rxsa(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
return 0;

cleanup:
- kfree(rx_sa);
+ macsec_rxsa_put(rx_sa);
rtnl_unlock();
return err;
}
@@ -2085,7 +2085,7 @@ static int macsec_add_txsa(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)

cleanup:
secy->operational = was_operational;
- kfree(tx_sa);
+ macsec_txsa_put(tx_sa);
rtnl_unlock();
return err;
}
--
2.25.1


2022-07-25 11:58:01

by patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: macsec: fix potential resource leak in macsec_add_rxsa() and macsec_add_txsa()

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (master)
by David S. Miller <[email protected]>:

On Fri, 22 Jul 2022 17:29:02 +0800 you wrote:
> init_rx_sa() allocates relevant resource for rx_sa->stats and rx_sa->
> key.tfm with alloc_percpu() and macsec_alloc_tfm(). When some error
> occurs after init_rx_sa() is called in macsec_add_rxsa(), the function
> released rx_sa with kfree() without releasing rx_sa->stats and rx_sa->
> key.tfm, which will lead to a resource leak.
>
> We should call macsec_rxsa_put() instead of kfree() to decrease the ref
> count of rx_sa and release the relevant resource if the refcount is 0.
> The same bug exists in macsec_add_txsa() for tx_sa as well. This patch
> fixes the above two bugs.
>
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
- net: macsec: fix potential resource leak in macsec_add_rxsa() and macsec_add_txsa()
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/c7b205fbbf3c

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