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[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 27/32] hv_netvsc: Fix memory leak when removing rndis device

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2020-01-24 14:25:10
Also in: lkml, stable
Subsystem: hyper-v/azure core and drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: "K. Y. Srinivasan", Haiyang Zhang, Wei Liu, Dexuan Cui, Long Li, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Mohammed Gamal <redacted>

[ Upstream commit 536dc5df2808efbefc5acee334d3c4f701790ec0 ]

kmemleak detects the following memory leak when hot removing
a network device:

unreferenced object 0xffff888083f63600 (size 256):
  comm "kworker/0:1", pid 12, jiffies 4294831717 (age 1113.676s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 40 c7 33 80 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00  .@.3............
    00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00  .....N..........
  backtrace:
    [<00000000d4a8f5be>] rndis_filter_device_add+0x117/0x11c0 [hv_netvsc]
    [<000000009c02d75b>] netvsc_probe+0x5e7/0xbf0 [hv_netvsc]
    [<00000000ddafce23>] vmbus_probe+0x74/0x170 [hv_vmbus]
    [<00000000046e64f1>] really_probe+0x22f/0xb50
    [<000000005cc35eb7>] driver_probe_device+0x25e/0x370
    [<0000000043c642b2>] bus_for_each_drv+0x11f/0x1b0
    [<000000005e3d09f0>] __device_attach+0x1c6/0x2f0
    [<00000000a72c362f>] bus_probe_device+0x1a6/0x260
    [<0000000008478399>] device_add+0x10a3/0x18e0
    [<00000000cf07b48c>] vmbus_device_register+0xe7/0x1e0 [hv_vmbus]
    [<00000000d46cf032>] vmbus_add_channel_work+0x8ab/0x1770 [hv_vmbus]
    [<000000002c94bb64>] process_one_work+0x919/0x17d0
    [<0000000096de6781>] worker_thread+0x87/0xb40
    [<00000000fbe7397e>] kthread+0x333/0x3f0
    [<000000004f844269>] ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50

rndis_filter_device_add() allocates an instance of struct rndis_device
which never gets deallocated as rndis_filter_device_remove() sets
net_device->extension which points to the rndis_device struct to NULL,
leaving the rndis_device dangling.

Since net_device->extension is eventually freed in free_netvsc_device(),
we refrain from setting it to NULL inside rndis_filter_device_remove()

Signed-off-by: Mohammed Gamal <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/hyperv/rndis_filter.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/rndis_filter.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/rndis_filter.c
index b19557c035f25..aa0bbffe49005 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/rndis_filter.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/rndis_filter.c
@@ -1331,8 +1331,6 @@ void rndis_filter_device_remove(struct hv_device *dev,
 	/* Halt and release the rndis device */
 	rndis_filter_halt_device(rndis_dev);
 
-	net_dev->extension = NULL;
-
 	netvsc_device_remove(dev);
 }
 
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