Re: memory leak in sctp_process_init

[Neil Horman]

On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 08:37:57PM -0300, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 03:07:09PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> > --- a/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
> > +++ b/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
> > @@ -2419,9 +2419,12 @@ int sctp_process_init(struct sctp_association *asoc, struct sctp_chunk *chunk,
> >  	/* Copy cookie in case we need to resend COOKIE-ECHO. */
> >  	cookie = asoc->peer.cookie;
> >  	if (cookie) {
> > +		if (asoc->peer.cookie_allocated)
> > +			kfree(cookie);
> >  		asoc->peer.cookie = kmemdup(cookie, asoc->peer.cookie_len, gfp);
> >  		if (!asoc->peer.cookie)
> >  			goto clean_up;
> > +		asoc->peer.cookie_allocated=1;
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	/* RFC 2960 7.2.1 The initial value of ssthresh MAY be arbitrarily
> 
> What if we kmemdup directly at sctp_process_param(), as it's done for
> others already? Like SCTP_PARAM_RANDOM and SCTP_PARAM_HMAC_ALGO. I
> don't see a reason for SCTP_PARAM_STATE_COOKIE to be different
> here. This way it would be always allocated, and ready to be kfreed.
> 
> We still need to free it after the handshake, btw.
> 
Yeah, that makes sense, I'll give that a shot.
Neil

>   Marcelo
>