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Re: [PATCH] net/l2tp: Fix reference count leak in l2tp_udp_recv_core

From: Tom Parkin <hidden>
Date: 2021-09-09 09:07:48
Also in: lkml

On  Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 12:32:00 +0800, Xiyu Yang wrote:
The reference count leak issue may take place in an error handling
path. If both conditions of tunnel->version == L2TP_HDR_VER_3 and the
return value of l2tp_v3_ensure_opt_in_linear is nonzero, the function
would directly jump to label invalid, without decrementing the reference
count of the l2tp_session object session increased earlier by
l2tp_tunnel_get_session(). This may result in refcount leaks.
I agree with your analysis.  Thanks for catching this!
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Fix this issue by decrease the reference count before jumping to the
label invalid.

Signed-off-by: Xiyu Yang <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Xin Xiong <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Xin Tan <redacted>
---
 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c b/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c
index 53486b162f01..93271a2632b8 100644
--- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c
+++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c
@@ -869,8 +869,10 @@ static int l2tp_udp_recv_core(struct l2tp_tunnel *tunnel, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	}
 
 	if (tunnel->version == L2TP_HDR_VER_3 &&
-	    l2tp_v3_ensure_opt_in_linear(session, skb, &ptr, &optr))
+	    l2tp_v3_ensure_opt_in_linear(session, skb, &ptr, &optr)) {
+		l2tp_session_dec_refcount(session);
 		goto invalid;
+	}
The error paths in l2tp_udp_recv_core are a bit convoluted because of
the check (!session || !session->recv_skb) which may or may not need
to drop a session reference if triggered.

I think it could be simplified since session->recv_skb is always set
for all the current session types in the tree, but doing that is probably
a little patch series on its own.
 
 	l2tp_recv_common(session, skb, ptr, optr, hdrflags, length);
 	l2tp_session_dec_refcount(session);
-- 
2.7.4
-- 
Tom Parkin
Katalix Systems Ltd
https://katalix.com
Catalysts for your Embedded Linux software development

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