[PATCH -next] sysctl: fix memleak in proc_sys_call_handler()

From: Yang Yingliang
Date: Tue Aug 04 2020 - 03:47:00 EST


I got a memleak report when doing some fuzz test:

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888103f3da00 (size 64):
comm "syz-executor.0", pid 2270, jiffies 4295404698 (age 46.593s)
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 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<000000004f2c0607>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:559 [inline]
[<000000004f2c0607>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:666 [inline]
[<000000004f2c0607>] proc_sys_call_handler+0x1d4/0x480 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:574
[<000000005ec6a16b>] call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:1876 [inline]
[<000000005ec6a16b>] new_sync_write+0x3c5/0x5b0 fs/read_write.c:515
[<00000000bbeebb83>] vfs_write+0x4e8/0x670 fs/read_write.c:595
[<000000009d967c93>] ksys_write+0x10c/0x220 fs/read_write.c:648
[<00000000139f6002>] do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
[<00000000b7d61f44>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Go to free buff when copy_from_iter_full() is failed.

Fixes: 1dea05cbc0d7 ("sysctl: Convert to iter interfaces")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
index 9f6b9c3e3fda..a4a3122f8a58 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_sys_call_handler(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
if (write) {
error = -EFAULT;
if (!copy_from_iter_full(kbuf, count, iter))
- goto out;
+ goto out_free_buf;
kbuf[count] = '\0';
}

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2.25.1