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[PATCH net] sctp: fix err_chunk memory leaks in INIT handling

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Date: 2026-06-20 15:48:57
Also in: linux-sctp
Subsystem: networking [general], sctp protocol, the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner, Xin Long, Linus Torvalds

When sctp_verify_init() encounters unrecognized parameters, it allocates an
err_chunk to report them. However, this chunk is leaked in several code
paths:

1. In sctp_sf_do_5_1B_init(), if security_sctp_assoc_request() fails after
   sctp_verify_init() has populated err_chunk, the function returns
   immediately without freeing it.

2. In sctp_sf_do_unexpected_init(), the same leak occurs on the
   security_sctp_assoc_request() failure path.

3. In sctp_sf_do_unexpected_init(), on the success path after copying
   unrecognized parameters to the INIT-ACK, the function returns without
   freeing err_chunk, unlike sctp_sf_do_5_1B_init() which properly frees
   it.

Fix all three leaks by adding sctp_chunk_free(err_chunk) calls before
returning in the error paths and on the success path in
sctp_sf_do_unexpected_init().

Fixes: c081d53f97a1 ("security: pass asoc to sctp_assoc_request and sctp_sk_clone")
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
---
 net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c b/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
index 6967e889d1bd..2f484c678093 100644
--- a/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
+++ b/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
@@ -400,6 +400,8 @@ enum sctp_disposition sctp_sf_do_5_1B_init(struct net *net,
 	/* Update socket peer label if first association. */
 	if (security_sctp_assoc_request(new_asoc, chunk->skb)) {
 		sctp_association_free(new_asoc);
+		if (err_chunk)
+			sctp_chunk_free(err_chunk);
 		return sctp_sf_pdiscard(net, ep, asoc, type, arg, commands);
 	}
 
@@ -1542,6 +1544,8 @@ static enum sctp_disposition sctp_sf_do_unexpected_init(
 	/* Update socket peer label if first association. */
 	if (security_sctp_assoc_request(new_asoc, chunk->skb)) {
 		sctp_association_free(new_asoc);
+		if (err_chunk)
+			sctp_chunk_free(err_chunk);
 		return sctp_sf_pdiscard(net, ep, asoc, type, arg, commands);
 	}
 
@@ -1607,6 +1611,7 @@ static enum sctp_disposition sctp_sf_do_unexpected_init(
 		 * parameter type.
 		 */
 		sctp_addto_chunk(repl, len, unk_param);
+		sctp_chunk_free(err_chunk);
 	}
 
 	sctp_add_cmd_sf(commands, SCTP_CMD_NEW_ASOC, SCTP_ASOC(new_asoc));
-- 
2.47.1
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