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RE: [PATCH -next] bonding: Fix a use-after-free problem when bond_sysfs_slave_add() failed

From: huangguobin <hidden>
Date: 2021-11-02 02:55:31
Also in: lkml

I think bond_sysfs_slave_del should not be used in the error handling process, because bond_sysfs_slave_del will traverse all slave_attrs and release them. When sysfs_create_file fails, only some attributes may be created successfully.
-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Wiedmann [mailto:jwi@linux.ibm.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 2, 2021 3:31 AM
To: huangguobin <redacted>; j.vosburgh@gmail.com; vfalico@gmail.com; andy@greyhouse.net; davem@davemloft.net; kuba@kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] bonding: Fix a use-after-free problem when bond_sysfs_slave_add() failed

On 01.11.21 15:34, Huang Guobin wrote:
When I do fuzz test for bonding device interface, I got the following 
use-after-free Calltrace:
[...]
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Fixes: 7afcaec49696 (bonding: use kobject_put instead of _del after 
kobject_add)
Signed-off-by: Huang Guobin <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs_slave.c | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs_slave.c 
b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs_slave.c
index fd07561..d1a5b3f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs_slave.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs_slave.c
@@ -137,18 +137,23 @@ static ssize_t slave_show(struct kobject *kobj,
 
 int bond_sysfs_slave_add(struct slave *slave)  {
-	const struct slave_attribute **a;
+	const struct slave_attribute **a, **b;
 	int err;
 
 	for (a = slave_attrs; *a; ++a) {
 		err = sysfs_create_file(&slave->kobj, &((*a)->attr));
 		if (err) {
-			kobject_put(&slave->kobj);
-			return err;
+			goto err_remove_file;
 		}
 	}
 
 	return 0;
+
+err_remove_file:
+	for (b = slave_attrs; b < a; ++b)
+		sysfs_remove_file(&slave->kobj, &((*b)->attr));
+
+	return err;
 }
 
This looks like a candidate for sysfs_create_files(), no?
 void bond_sysfs_slave_del(struct slave *slave)
  
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