This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: qrtr: Fix memory leak in qrtr_tun_open to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-qrtr-fix-memory-leak-in-qrtr_tun_open.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From fc0494ead6398609c49afa37bc949b61c5c16b91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takeshi Misawa <jeliantsurux@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 08:44:27 +0900 Subject: net: qrtr: Fix memory leak in qrtr_tun_open From: Takeshi Misawa <jeliantsurux@xxxxxxxxx> commit fc0494ead6398609c49afa37bc949b61c5c16b91 upstream. If qrtr_endpoint_register() failed, tun is leaked. Fix this, by freeing tun in error path. syzbot report: BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff88811848d680 (size 64): comm "syz-executor684", pid 10171, jiffies 4294951561 (age 26.070s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 80 dd 0a 84 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 90 d6 48 18 81 88 ff ff 90 d6 48 18 81 88 ff ff ..H.......H..... backtrace: [<0000000018992a50>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:552 [inline] [<0000000018992a50>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:682 [inline] [<0000000018992a50>] qrtr_tun_open+0x22/0x90 net/qrtr/tun.c:35 [<0000000003a453ef>] misc_open+0x19c/0x1e0 drivers/char/misc.c:141 [<00000000dec38ac8>] chrdev_open+0x10d/0x340 fs/char_dev.c:414 [<0000000079094996>] do_dentry_open+0x1e6/0x620 fs/open.c:817 [<000000004096d290>] do_open fs/namei.c:3252 [inline] [<000000004096d290>] path_openat+0x74a/0x1b00 fs/namei.c:3369 [<00000000b8e64241>] do_filp_open+0xa0/0x190 fs/namei.c:3396 [<00000000a3299422>] do_sys_openat2+0xed/0x230 fs/open.c:1172 [<000000002c1bdcef>] do_sys_open fs/open.c:1188 [inline] [<000000002c1bdcef>] __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1204 [inline] [<000000002c1bdcef>] __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1199 [inline] [<000000002c1bdcef>] __x64_sys_openat+0x7f/0xe0 fs/open.c:1199 [<00000000f3a5728f>] do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [<000000004b38b7ec>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 Fixes: 28fb4e59a47d ("net: qrtr: Expose tunneling endpoint to user space") Reported-by: syzbot+5d6e4af21385f5cfc56a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Takeshi Misawa <jeliantsurux@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210221234427.GA2140@DESKTOP Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/qrtr/tun.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/qrtr/tun.c +++ b/net/qrtr/tun.c @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ static int qrtr_tun_send(struct qrtr_end static int qrtr_tun_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) { struct qrtr_tun *tun; + int ret; tun = kzalloc(sizeof(*tun), GFP_KERNEL); if (!tun) @@ -43,7 +44,16 @@ static int qrtr_tun_open(struct inode *i filp->private_data = tun; - return qrtr_endpoint_register(&tun->ep, QRTR_EP_NID_AUTO); + ret = qrtr_endpoint_register(&tun->ep, QRTR_EP_NID_AUTO); + if (ret) + goto out; + + return 0; + +out: + filp->private_data = NULL; + kfree(tun); + return ret; } static ssize_t qrtr_tun_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jeliantsurux@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.19/net-qrtr-fix-memory-leak-in-qrtr_tun_open.patch