3.16.70-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: YueHaibing yuehaibing@huawei.com
commit 895a5e96dbd6386c8e78e5b78e067dcc67b7f0ab upstream.
syzkaller report this: BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff88837a71a500 (size 256): comm "syz-executor.2", pid 9770, jiffies 4297825125 (age 17.843s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 .....N.......... ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 20 c0 ef 86 ff ff ff ff ........ ....... backtrace: [<00000000db12624b>] netdev_register_kobject+0x124/0x2e0 net/core/net-sysfs.c:1751 [<00000000dc49a994>] register_netdevice+0xcc1/0x1270 net/core/dev.c:8516 [<00000000e5f3fea0>] tun_set_iff drivers/net/tun.c:2649 [inline] [<00000000e5f3fea0>] __tun_chr_ioctl+0x2218/0x3d20 drivers/net/tun.c:2883 [<000000001b8ac127>] vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:46 [inline] [<000000001b8ac127>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x1a5/0x10e0 fs/ioctl.c:690 [<0000000079b269f8>] ksys_ioctl+0x89/0xa0 fs/ioctl.c:705 [<00000000de649beb>] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:712 [inline] [<00000000de649beb>] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:710 [inline] [<00000000de649beb>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x74/0xb0 fs/ioctl.c:710 [<000000007ebded1e>] do_syscall_64+0xc8/0x580 arch/x86/entry/common.c:290 [<00000000db315d36>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe [<00000000115be9bb>] 0xffffffffffffffff
It should call kset_unregister to free 'dev->queues_kset' in error path of register_queue_kobjects, otherwise will cause a mem leak.
Reported-by: Hulk Robot hulkci@huawei.com Fixes: 1d24eb4815d1 ("xps: Transmit Packet Steering") Signed-off-by: YueHaibing yuehaibing@huawei.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net [bwh: Backported to 3.16: net_device pointer is called "net", confusingly] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk --- net/core/net-sysfs.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c +++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c @@ -1219,6 +1219,9 @@ static int register_queue_kobjects(struc error: netdev_queue_update_kobjects(net, txq, 0); net_rx_queue_update_kobjects(net, rxq, 0); +#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS + kset_unregister(net->queues_kset); +#endif return error; }