Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2025-12-04

Re: [PATCH] net: netrom: fix memory leak in nr_output()

From: Wang Liang <hidden>
Date: 2025-11-29 04:01:24
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在 2025/11/29 11:42, Deepanshu Kartikey 写道:
When nr_output() fragments a large packet, it calls sock_alloc_send_skb()

Hi!

Coincidentally, we both are working on this issue simultaneously.

 From the syz test requests:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d7abc36bbbb6d7d40b58

I sended the test patch earlier, only a dozen seconds...

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Best regards
Wang Liang
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in a loop to allocate skbs for each fragment. If this allocation fails,
the function returns without freeing the original skb that was passed in,
causing a memory leak.

Add the missing kfree_skb() call before returning on allocation failure.

Reported-by: syzbot+d7abc36bbbb6d7d40b58@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: syzbot+d7abc36bbbb6d7d40b58@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d7abc36bbbb6d7d40b58
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <redacted>
---
  net/netrom/nr_out.c | 4 +++-
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/netrom/nr_out.c b/net/netrom/nr_out.c
index 5e531394a724..2b3cbceb0b52 100644
--- a/net/netrom/nr_out.c
+++ b/net/netrom/nr_out.c
@@ -43,8 +42,11 @@ void nr_output(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
  		frontlen = skb_headroom(skb);
  
  		while (skb->len > 0) {
-			if ((skbn = sock_alloc_send_skb(sk, frontlen + NR_MAX_PACKET_SIZE, 0, &err)) == NULL)
			skbn = sock_alloc_send_skb(sk, frontlen + NR_MAX_PACKET_SIZE, 0, &err);
			if (skbn == NULL) {
+				kfree_skb(skb);
  				return;
+			}
  
  			skb_reserve(skbn, frontlen);
  
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