Re: net: memory leak in ip_cmsg_send

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Thu Feb 04 2016 - 09:04:25 EST


On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 10:47 +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've hit the following memory leak while running syzkaller fuzzer:
>
> unreferenced object 0xffff88002ea39708 (size 64):
> comm "syz-executor", pid 19887, jiffies 4295848369 (age 8.676s)
> hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 ................
> backtrace:
> [< inline >] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:607
> [< inline >] ip_options_get_alloc net/ipv4/ip_options.c:515
> [<ffffffff85836ea4>] ip_options_get+0x34/0x90 net/ipv4/ip_options.c:551
> [<ffffffff8584924d>] ip_cmsg_send+0x5bd/0x6f0 net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:252
> [<ffffffff858e8502>] raw_sendmsg+0xa52/0x25a0 net/ieee802154/socket.c:738
> [<ffffffff859246e7>] inet_sendmsg+0x2f7/0x4c0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:736
> [< inline >] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:611
> [<ffffffff854cdffa>] sock_sendmsg+0xca/0x110 net/socket.c:621
> [<ffffffff854cfe3a>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x72a/0x840 net/socket.c:1947
> [<ffffffff854d1e0e>] __sys_sendmsg+0xce/0x170 net/socket.c:1981
> [< inline >] SYSC_sendmsg net/socket.c:1992
> [<ffffffff854d1edd>] SyS_sendmsg+0x2d/0x50 net/socket.c:1988
>
> ip_cmsg_send seems to forget to free ipc->opt when it returns an error
> (all callers expect that there is nothing to cleanup if it returns an
> error).
>
> On commit 34229b277480f46c1e9a19f027f30b074512e68b.

Hmmm... thanks for the report, I am testing a patch.