[lvc-project] [PATCH v2] net: openvswitch: fix flow memory leak in ovs_flow_cmd_new

[Eelco Chaudron]

On 1 Feb 2023, at 22:02, Fedor Pchelkin wrote:

> Syzkaller reports a memory leak of new_flow in ovs_flow_cmd_new() as it is
> not freed when an allocation of a key fails.
>
> BUG: memory leak
> unreferenced object 0xffff888116668000 (size 632):
>   comm "syz-executor231", pid 1090, jiffies 4294844701 (age 18.871s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>   backtrace:
>     [<00000000defa3494>] kmem_cache_zalloc include/linux/slab.h:654 [inline]
>     [<00000000defa3494>] ovs_flow_alloc+0x19/0x180 net/openvswitch/flow_table.c:77
>     [<00000000c67d8873>] ovs_flow_cmd_new+0x1de/0xd40 net/openvswitch/datapath.c:957
>     [<0000000010a539a8>] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x22d/0x330 net/netlink/genetlink.c:739
>     [<00000000dff3302d>] genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:783 [inline]
>     [<00000000dff3302d>] genl_rcv_msg+0x328/0x590 net/netlink/genetlink.c:800
>     [<000000000286dd87>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x153/0x430 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2515
>     [<0000000061fed410>] genl_rcv+0x24/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:811
>     [<000000009dc0f111>] netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1313 [inline]
>     [<000000009dc0f111>] netlink_unicast+0x545/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1339
>     [<000000004a5ee816>] netlink_sendmsg+0x8e7/0xde0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1934
>     [<00000000482b476f>] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:651 [inline]
>     [<00000000482b476f>] sock_sendmsg+0x152/0x190 net/socket.c:671
>     [<00000000698574ba>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x70a/0x870 net/socket.c:2356
>     [<00000000d28d9e11>] ___sys_sendmsg+0xf3/0x170 net/socket.c:2410
>     [<0000000083ba9120>] __sys_sendmsg+0xe5/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2439
>     [<00000000c00628f8>] do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
>     [<000000004abfdcf4>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6
>
> To fix this the patch rearranges the goto labels to reflect the order of
> object allocations and adds appropriate goto statements on the error
> paths.
>
> Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
>
> Fixes: 68bb10101e6b ("openvswitch: Fix flow lookup to use unmasked key")
> Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin at ispras.ru>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov at ispras.ru>
> ---
> v1->v2: make goto statements structured

Thanks for fixing this, the changes look good.

Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro at redhat.com>


>  net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 12 ++++++------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
> index a71795355aec..fcee6012293b 100644
> --- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
> +++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
> @@ -1004,14 +1004,14 @@ static int ovs_flow_cmd_new(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
>  	key = kzalloc(sizeof(*key), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!key) {
>  		error = -ENOMEM;
> -		goto err_kfree_key;
> +		goto err_kfree_flow;
>  	}
>
>  	ovs_match_init(&match, key, false, &mask);
>  	error = ovs_nla_get_match(net, &match, a[OVS_FLOW_ATTR_KEY],
>  				  a[OVS_FLOW_ATTR_MASK], log);
>  	if (error)
> -		goto err_kfree_flow;
> +		goto err_kfree_key;
>
>  	ovs_flow_mask_key(&new_flow->key, key, true, &mask);
>
> @@ -1019,14 +1019,14 @@ static int ovs_flow_cmd_new(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
>  	error = ovs_nla_get_identifier(&new_flow->id, a[OVS_FLOW_ATTR_UFID],
>  				       key, log);
>  	if (error)
> -		goto err_kfree_flow;
> +		goto err_kfree_key;
>
>  	/* Validate actions. */
>  	error = ovs_nla_copy_actions(net, a[OVS_FLOW_ATTR_ACTIONS],
>  				     &new_flow->key, &acts, log);
>  	if (error) {
>  		OVS_NLERR(log, "Flow actions may not be safe on all matching packets.");
> -		goto err_kfree_flow;
> +		goto err_kfree_key;
>  	}
>
>  	reply = ovs_flow_cmd_alloc_info(acts, &new_flow->id, info, false,
> @@ -1126,10 +1126,10 @@ static int ovs_flow_cmd_new(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
>  	kfree_skb(reply);
>  err_kfree_acts:
>  	ovs_nla_free_flow_actions(acts);
> -err_kfree_flow:
> -	ovs_flow_free(new_flow, false);
>  err_kfree_key:
>  	kfree(key);
> +err_kfree_flow:
> +	ovs_flow_free(new_flow, false);
>  error:
>  	return error;
>  }
> -- 
> 2.30.2