From: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 58af3d3d54e87bfc1f936e16c04ade3369d34011 ] Syzbot reported memory leak in tty_init_dev(). The problem was in unputted tty in ldisc_open() static int ldisc_open(struct tty_struct *tty) { ... ser->tty = tty_kref_get(tty); ... result = register_netdevice(dev); if (result) { rtnl_unlock(); free_netdev(dev); return -ENODEV; } ... } Ser pointer is netdev private_data, so after free_netdev() this pointer goes away with unputted tty reference. So, fix it by adding tty_kref_put() before freeing netdev. Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+f303e045423e617d2cad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c b/drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c index 32834dad0b83..1243c2e5a86a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c +++ b/drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c @@ -362,6 +362,7 @@ static int ldisc_open(struct tty_struct *tty) rtnl_lock(); result = register_netdevice(dev); if (result) { + tty_kref_put(tty); rtnl_unlock(); free_netdev(dev); return -ENODEV; -- 2.30.2