# \[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 06/13\] net: caif: fix memory leak in ldisc\_open

- From: Sasha Levin \<sashal@kernel.org\>
- Date: 2021-06-21 18:06:07 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2021/06/1421604
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/stable/2021/06/1421601/t.md

```text
From: Pavel Skripkin <redacted>

[ Upstream commit 58af3d3d54e87bfc1f936e16c04ade3369d34011 ]

Syzbot reported memory leak in tty_init_dev().
The problem was in unputted tty in ldisc_open()

static int ldisc_open(struct tty_struct *tty)
{
...
	ser->tty = tty_kref_get(tty);
...
	result = register_netdevice(dev);
	if (result) {
		rtnl_unlock();
		free_netdev(dev);
		return -ENODEV;
	}
...
}

Ser pointer is netdev private_data, so after free_netdev()
this pointer goes away with unputted tty reference. So, fix
it by adding tty_kref_put() before freeing netdev.

Reported-and-tested-by: <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Skripkin <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c b/drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c
index 32834dad0b83..1243c2e5a86a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c
@@ -362,6 +362,7 @@ static int ldisc_open(struct tty_struct *tty)
 	rtnl_lock();
 	result = register_netdevice(dev);
 	if (result) {
+		tty_kref_put(tty);
 		rtnl_unlock();
 		free_netdev(dev);
 		return -ENODEV;
-- 
2.30.2

```