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[v2] net: fix a leak in register_netdevice()

Message ID 20191203141239.hztnqxtsa67ramsh@kili.mountain
State Accepted
Delegated to: David Ahern
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Series [v2] net: fix a leak in register_netdevice() | expand

Commit Message

Dan Carpenter Dec. 3, 2019, 2:12 p.m. UTC
We have to free "dev->name_node" on this error path.

Fixes: ff92741270bf ("net: introduce name_node struct to be used in hashlist")
Reported-by: syzbot+6e13e65ffbaa33757bcb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
---
v2: dev->name_node can't be NULL so we can remove the check for that
    in the cleanup code.

 net/core/dev.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

David Miller Dec. 3, 2019, 7:19 p.m. UTC | #1
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 17:12:39 +0300

> We have to free "dev->name_node" on this error path.
> 
> Fixes: ff92741270bf ("net: introduce name_node struct to be used in hashlist")
> Reported-by: syzbot+6e13e65ffbaa33757bcb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> ---
> v2: dev->name_node can't be NULL so we can remove the check for that
>     in the cleanup code.

Applied, thanks Dan.
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Patch

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index d75fd04d4e2c..c4ef4d7638ca 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -9246,7 +9246,7 @@  int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
 		if (ret) {
 			if (ret > 0)
 				ret = -EIO;
-			goto out;
+			goto err_free_name;
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -9361,12 +9361,12 @@  int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
 	return ret;
 
 err_uninit:
-	if (dev->name_node)
-		netdev_name_node_free(dev->name_node);
 	if (dev->netdev_ops->ndo_uninit)
 		dev->netdev_ops->ndo_uninit(dev);
 	if (dev->priv_destructor)
 		dev->priv_destructor(dev);
+err_free_name:
+	netdev_name_node_free(dev->name_node);
 	goto out;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_netdevice);