On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 10:47:12 +0300 Fedor Pchelkin wrote:
> On Wed, 18. Dec 00:19, Fedor Pchelkin wrote:
> > A NULL sock pointer is passed into l2cap_sock_alloc() when it is called
> > from l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb() and the error handling paths should
> > also be aware of it.
> >
> > Seemingly a more elegant solution would be to swap bt_sock_alloc() and
> > l2cap_chan_create() calls since they are not interdependent to that moment
> > but then l2cap_chan_create() adds the soon to be deallocated and still
> > dummy-initialized channel to the global list accessible by many L2CAP
> > paths. The channel would be removed from the list in short period of time
> > but be a bit more straight-forward here and just check for NULL instead of
> > changing the order of function calls.
> >
> > Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE static
> > analysis tool.
> >
> > Fixes: 7c4f78cdb8e7 ("Bluetooth: L2CAP: do not leave dangling sk pointer on error in l2cap_sock_create()")
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> Urgh.. a bit confused about which tree the patch should go to - net or
> bluetooth.
>
> I've now noticed the Fixes commit went directly via net-next as part of a
> series (despite "Bluetooth: L2CAP:" patches usually go through bluetooth
> tree first). So what about this patch?
7c4f78cdb8e7 went directly to net-next because it was a larger series touching
multiple sub-subsystems:
$ git log -12 --graph --oneline 2d859aff775df54
* 2d859aff775d Merge branch 'do-not-leave-dangling-sk-pointers-in-pf-create-functions'
|\
| * 18429e6e0c2a Revert "net: do not leave a dangling sk pointer, when socket creation fails"
| * 48156296a08c net: warn, if pf->create does not clear sock->sk on error
| * 9df99c395d0f net: inet6: do not leave a dangling sk pointer in inet6_create()
| * 9365fa510c6f net: inet: do not leave a dangling sk pointer in inet_create()
| * b4fcd63f6ef7 net: ieee802154: do not leave a dangling sk pointer in ieee802154_create()
| * 811a7ca7320c net: af_can: do not leave a dangling sk pointer in can_create()
| * 3945c799f12b Bluetooth: RFCOMM: avoid leaving dangling sk pointer in rfcomm_sock_alloc()
| * 7c4f78cdb8e7 Bluetooth: L2CAP: do not leave dangling sk pointer on error in l2cap_sock_create()
| * 46f2a11cb82b af_packet: avoid erroring out after sock_init_data() in packet_create()
|/
* 397006ba5d91 net/sched: cbs: Fix integer overflow in cbs_set_port_rate()
