This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled openvswitch: fix memory leak at failed datapath creation to the 5.15-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: openvswitch-fix-memory-leak-at-failed-datapath-creat.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 08f080516d413b89410baf6d640048c48b075ba2 Author: Andrey Zhadchenko <andrey.zhadchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Aug 25 05:03:26 2022 +0300 openvswitch: fix memory leak at failed datapath creation [ Upstream commit a87406f4adee9c53b311d8a1ba2849c69e29a6d0 ] ovs_dp_cmd_new()->ovs_dp_change()->ovs_dp_set_upcall_portids() allocates array via kmalloc. If for some reason new_vport() fails during ovs_dp_cmd_new() dp->upcall_portids must be freed. Add missing kfree. Kmemleak example: unreferenced object 0xffff88800c382500 (size 64): comm "dump_state", pid 323, jiffies 4294955418 (age 104.347s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 5e c2 79 e4 1f 7a 38 c7 09 21 38 0c 80 88 ff ff ^.y..z8..!8..... 03 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 28 00 00 00 ............(... backtrace: [<0000000071bebc9f>] ovs_dp_set_upcall_portids+0x38/0xa0 [<000000000187d8bd>] ovs_dp_change+0x63/0xe0 [<000000002397e446>] ovs_dp_cmd_new+0x1f0/0x380 [<00000000aa06f36e>] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xea/0x150 [<000000008f583bc4>] genl_rcv_msg+0xdc/0x1e0 [<00000000fa10e377>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x50/0x100 [<000000004959cece>] genl_rcv+0x24/0x40 [<000000004699ac7f>] netlink_unicast+0x23e/0x360 [<00000000c153573e>] netlink_sendmsg+0x24e/0x4b0 [<000000006f4aa380>] sock_sendmsg+0x62/0x70 [<00000000d0068654>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x230/0x270 [<0000000012dacf7d>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x88/0xd0 [<0000000011776020>] __sys_sendmsg+0x59/0xa0 [<000000002e8f2dc1>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [<000000003243e7cb>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd Fixes: b83d23a2a38b ("openvswitch: Introduce per-cpu upcall dispatch") Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrey Zhadchenko <andrey.zhadchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220825020326.664073-1-andrey.zhadchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c index 67ad08320886b..5e2c83cb7b129 100644 --- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c +++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c @@ -1801,7 +1801,7 @@ static int ovs_dp_cmd_new(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) ovs_dp_reset_user_features(skb, info); } - goto err_unlock_and_destroy_meters; + goto err_destroy_portids; } err = ovs_dp_cmd_fill_info(dp, reply, info->snd_portid, @@ -1816,6 +1816,8 @@ static int ovs_dp_cmd_new(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) ovs_notify(&dp_datapath_genl_family, reply, info); return 0; +err_destroy_portids: + kfree(rcu_dereference_raw(dp->upcall_portids)); err_unlock_and_destroy_meters: ovs_unlock(); ovs_meters_exit(dp);