From: Jouni Hogander <jouni.hogander@xxxxxxxxxx> commit b8eb718348b8fb30b5a7d0a8fce26fb3f4ac741b upstream. kobject_init_and_add takes reference even when it fails. This has to be given up by the caller in error handling. Otherwise memory allocated by kobject_init_and_add is never freed. Originally found by Syzkaller: BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff8880679f8b08 (size 8): comm "netdev_register", pid 269, jiffies 4294693094 (age 12.132s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 72 78 2d 30 00 36 20 d4 rx-0.6 . backtrace: [<000000008c93818e>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x16e/0x290 [<000000001f2e4e49>] kvasprintf+0xb1/0x140 [<000000007f313394>] kvasprintf_const+0x56/0x160 [<00000000aeca11c8>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x5b/0x140 [<0000000073a0367c>] kobject_init_and_add+0xd8/0x170 [<0000000088838e4b>] net_rx_queue_update_kobjects+0x152/0x560 [<000000006be5f104>] netdev_register_kobject+0x210/0x380 [<00000000e31dab9d>] register_netdevice+0xa1b/0xf00 [<00000000f68b2465>] __tun_chr_ioctl+0x20d5/0x3dd0 [<000000004c50599f>] tun_chr_ioctl+0x2f/0x40 [<00000000bbd4c317>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x1c7/0x1510 [<00000000d4c59e8f>] ksys_ioctl+0x99/0xb0 [<00000000946aea81>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x78/0xb0 [<0000000038d946e5>] do_syscall_64+0x16f/0x580 [<00000000e0aa5d8f>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 [<00000000285b3d1a>] 0xffffffffffffffff Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jouni Hogander <jouni.hogander@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/net-sysfs.c | 24 +++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) --- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c +++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c @@ -932,21 +932,23 @@ static int rx_queue_add_kobject(struct n error = kobject_init_and_add(kobj, &rx_queue_ktype, NULL, "rx-%u", index); if (error) - return error; + goto err; dev_hold(queue->dev); if (dev->sysfs_rx_queue_group) { error = sysfs_create_group(kobj, dev->sysfs_rx_queue_group); - if (error) { - kobject_put(kobj); - return error; - } + if (error) + goto err; } kobject_uevent(kobj, KOBJ_ADD); return error; + +err: + kobject_put(kobj); + return error; } #endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */ @@ -1471,21 +1473,21 @@ static int netdev_queue_add_kobject(stru error = kobject_init_and_add(kobj, &netdev_queue_ktype, NULL, "tx-%u", index); if (error) - return error; + goto err; dev_hold(queue->dev); #ifdef CONFIG_BQL error = sysfs_create_group(kobj, &dql_group); - if (error) { - kobject_put(kobj); - return error; - } + if (error) + goto err; #endif kobject_uevent(kobj, KOBJ_ADD); - return 0; +err: + kobject_put(kobj); + return error; } #endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */