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Commit e056cc44 authored by Pavel Skripkin's avatar Pavel Skripkin Committed by Sasha Levin
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net: caif: fix memory leak in ldisc_open

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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: default avatar <syzbot+f303e045423e617d2cad@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
parent 6a3354d3
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