Re: memory leak in sctp_process_init

From: Neil Horman
Date: Thu May 30 2019 - 10:24:23 EST


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.
>
> Marcelo
>

Still untested, but something like this?


diff --git a/net/sctp/associola.c b/net/sctp/associola.c
index d2c7d0d2abc1..718b9917844e 100644
--- a/net/sctp/associola.c
+++ b/net/sctp/associola.c
@@ -393,6 +393,7 @@ void sctp_association_free(struct sctp_association *asoc)
kfree(asoc->peer.peer_random);
kfree(asoc->peer.peer_chunks);
kfree(asoc->peer.peer_hmacs);
+ kfree(asoc->peer.cookie);

/* Release the transport structures. */
list_for_each_safe(pos, temp, &asoc->peer.transport_addr_list) {
diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c b/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
index 72e74503f9fc..ff365f22a3c1 100644
--- a/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
+++ b/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
@@ -2431,14 +2431,6 @@ int sctp_process_init(struct sctp_association *asoc, struct sctp_chunk *chunk,
/* Peer Rwnd : Current calculated value of the peer's rwnd. */
asoc->peer.rwnd = asoc->peer.i.a_rwnd;

- /* Copy cookie in case we need to resend COOKIE-ECHO. */
- cookie = asoc->peer.cookie;
- if (cookie) {
- asoc->peer.cookie = kmemdup(cookie, asoc->peer.cookie_len, gfp);
- if (!asoc->peer.cookie)
- goto clean_up;
- }
-
/* RFC 2960 7.2.1 The initial value of ssthresh MAY be arbitrarily
* high (for example, implementations MAY use the size of the receiver
* advertised window).
@@ -2607,7 +2599,9 @@ static int sctp_process_param(struct sctp_association *asoc,
case SCTP_PARAM_STATE_COOKIE:
asoc->peer.cookie_len =
ntohs(param.p->length) - sizeof(struct sctp_paramhdr);
- asoc->peer.cookie = param.cookie->body;
+ asoc->peer.cookie = kmemdup(param.cookie->body, asoc->peer.cookie_len, gfp);
+ if (!asoc->peer.cookie)
+ retval = 0;
break;

case SCTP_PARAM_HEARTBEAT_INFO: