[PATCH net v2] net: ethtool: Don't call .cleanup_data when prepare_data fails

From: Maxime Chevallier
Date: Mon Apr 07 2025 - 09:05:44 EST


There's a consistent pattern where the .cleanup_data() callback is
called when .prepare_data() fails, when it should really be called to
clean after a successful .prepare_data() as per the documentation.

Rewrite the error-handling paths to make sure we don't cleanup
un-prepared data.

Fixes: c781ff12a2f3 ("ethtool: Allow network drivers to dump arbitrary EEPROM data")
Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
V2: - Fixed typo in commit log (Simon)
- Changed the Fixes tag, as per Jakub's comment. Eeprom appears to
be the first potentially problematic case, as we risk freeing
twice the eeprom data. I couldn't test that with what I have
locally though.
- Aggregated Simon and Michal's reviews


net/ethtool/netlink.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ethtool/netlink.c b/net/ethtool/netlink.c
index a163d40c6431..977beeaaa2f9 100644
--- a/net/ethtool/netlink.c
+++ b/net/ethtool/netlink.c
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ static int ethnl_default_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
netdev_unlock_ops(req_info->dev);
rtnl_unlock();
if (ret < 0)
- goto err_cleanup;
+ goto err_dev;
ret = ops->reply_size(req_info, reply_data);
if (ret < 0)
goto err_cleanup;
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ static int ethnl_default_dump_one(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
netdev_unlock_ops(dev);
rtnl_unlock();
if (ret < 0)
- goto out;
+ goto out_cancel;
ret = ethnl_fill_reply_header(skb, dev, ctx->ops->hdr_attr);
if (ret < 0)
goto out;
@@ -569,6 +569,7 @@ static int ethnl_default_dump_one(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
out:
if (ctx->ops->cleanup_data)
ctx->ops->cleanup_data(ctx->reply_data);
+out_cancel:
ctx->reply_data->dev = NULL;
if (ret < 0)
genlmsg_cancel(skb, ehdr);
@@ -793,7 +794,7 @@ static void ethnl_default_notify(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int cmd,
ethnl_init_reply_data(reply_data, ops, dev);
ret = ops->prepare_data(req_info, reply_data, &info);
if (ret < 0)
- goto err_cleanup;
+ goto err_rep;
ret = ops->reply_size(req_info, reply_data);
if (ret < 0)
goto err_cleanup;
@@ -828,6 +829,7 @@ static void ethnl_default_notify(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int cmd,
err_cleanup:
if (ops->cleanup_data)
ops->cleanup_data(reply_data);
+err_rep:
kfree(reply_data);
kfree(req_info);
return;
--
2.49.0