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[PATCH net v4 06/12] net: ip6_gre: Fix one possbile memleak when fail to register_netdevice

From: <hidden>
Date: 2017-05-02 06:13:37
Subsystem: networking [general], networking [ipv4/ipv6], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Ahern, Ido Schimmel, Linus Torvalds

From: Gao Feng <redacted>

The ip6_gre allocates some resources in its ndo_init func, and
free some of them in its destructor func. Then there is one memleak
that some errors happen after register_netdevice invokes the ndo_init
callback. Because only the ndo_uninit callback is invoked in the error
handler of register_netdevice, but destructor not.

Now create one new func ip6_gre_destructor_free to free the mem in
the destructor, and ndo_uninit func also invokes it when fail to
register the ip6_gre device.

It's not only free all resources, but also follow the original desgin
that the resources are freed in the destructor normally after
register the device successfully.

Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <redacted>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
index 6fcb7cb..e53c3ac 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
@@ -355,6 +355,14 @@ static struct ip6_tnl *ip6gre_tunnel_locate(struct net *net,
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+static void ip6gre_destructor_free(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	struct ip6_tnl *t = netdev_priv(dev);
+
+	dst_cache_destroy(&t->dst_cache);
+	free_percpu(dev->tstats);
+}
+
 static void ip6gre_tunnel_uninit(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct ip6_tnl *t = netdev_priv(dev);
@@ -363,6 +371,10 @@ static void ip6gre_tunnel_uninit(struct net_device *dev)
 	ip6gre_tunnel_unlink(ign, t);
 	dst_cache_reset(&t->dst_cache);
 	dev_put(dev);
+
+	/* dev is not registered, perform the free instead of destructor */
+	if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED)
+		ip6gre_destructor_free(dev);
 }
 
 
@@ -981,10 +993,7 @@ static int ip6gre_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 
 static void ip6gre_dev_free(struct net_device *dev)
 {
-	struct ip6_tnl *t = netdev_priv(dev);
-
-	dst_cache_destroy(&t->dst_cache);
-	free_percpu(dev->tstats);
+	ip6gre_destructor_free(dev);
 	free_netdev(dev);
 }
 
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