mac80211: fix a memory leak where sta_info is not freed
stable inclusion from stable-v5.10.137 commit c35c01a7cb3002b86f7c245b9e5e3e76a331d738 category: bugfix bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I60PLB Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=c35c01a7cb3002b86f7c245b9e5e3e76a331d738 -------------------------------- commit 8f9dcc29 upstream. The following is from a system that went OOM due to a memory leak: wlan0: Allocated STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 wlan0: Allocated STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 wlan0: IBSS finish 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 (---from ieee80211_ibss_add_sta) wlan0: Adding new IBSS station 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 wlan0: moving STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 to state 2 wlan0: moving STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 to state 3 wlan0: Inserted STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 wlan0: IBSS finish 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 (---from ieee80211_ibss_work) wlan0: Adding new IBSS station 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 wlan0: moving STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 to state 2 wlan0: moving STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 to state 3 . . wlan0: expiring inactive not authorized STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 wlan0: moving STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 to state 2 wlan0: moving STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 to state 1 wlan0: Removed STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 wlan0: Destroyed STA 74:83:c2:64:0b:87 The ieee80211_ibss_finish_sta() is called twice on the same STA from 2 different locations. On the second attempt, the allocated STA is not destroyed creating a kernel memory leak. This is happening because sta_info_insert_finish() does not call sta_info_free() the second time when the STA already exists (returns -EEXIST). Note that the caller sta_info_insert_rcu() assumes STA is destroyed upon errors. Same fix is applied to -ENOMEM. Signed-off-by:Ahmed Zaki <anzaki@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211002145329.3125293-1-anzaki@gmail.com [change the error path label to use the existing code] Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Viacheslav Sablin <sablin@ispras.ru> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Zheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com> Reviewed-by:
Wei Li <liwei391@huawei.com>
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