This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: sched: fix possible refcount leak in tc_chain_tmplt_add()
to the 6.1-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-sched-fix-possible-refcount-leak-in-tc_chain_tmp.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 864869b7e378af630bc22605f40d7aab2a9f5b83
Author: Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jun 7 10:23:01 2023 +0800
net: sched: fix possible refcount leak in tc_chain_tmplt_add()
[ Upstream commit 44f8baaf230c655c249467ca415b570deca8df77 ]
try_module_get will be called in tcf_proto_lookup_ops. So module_put needs
to be called to drop the refcount if ops don't implement the required
function.
Fixes: 9f407f1768d3 ("net: sched: introduce chain templates")
Signed-off-by: Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/sched/cls_api.c b/net/sched/cls_api.c
index b51d80a2fece3..abaf75300497d 100644
--- a/net/sched/cls_api.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_api.c
@@ -2780,6 +2780,7 @@ static int tc_chain_tmplt_add(struct tcf_chain *chain, struct net *net,
return PTR_ERR(ops);
if (!ops->tmplt_create || !ops->tmplt_destroy || !ops->tmplt_dump) {
NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Chain templates are not supported with specified classifier");
+ module_put(ops->owner);
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
}
