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Commit b505e031 authored by Duoming Zhou's avatar Duoming Zhou Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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ax25: Fix reference count leak issues of ax25_dev

The ax25_addr_ax25dev() and ax25_dev_device_down() exist a reference
count leak issue of the object "ax25_dev".

Memory leak issue in ax25_addr_ax25dev():

The reference count of the object "ax25_dev" can be increased multiple
times in ax25_addr_ax25dev(). This will cause a memory leak.

Memory leak issues in ax25_dev_device_down():

The reference count of ax25_dev is set to 1 in ax25_dev_device_up() and
then increase the reference count when ax25_dev is added to ax25_dev_list.
As a result, the reference count of ax25_dev is 2. But when the device is
shutting down. The ax25_dev_device_down() drops the reference count once
or twice depending on if we goto unlock_put or not, which will cause
memory leak.

As for the issue of ax25_addr_ax25dev(), it is impossible for one pointer
to be on a list twice. So add a break in ax25_addr_ax25dev(). As for the
issue of ax25_dev_device_down(), increase the reference count of ax25_dev
once in ax25_dev_device_up() and decrease the reference count of ax25_dev
after it is removed from the ax25_dev_list.

Fixes: d01ffb9e

 ("ax25: add refcount in ax25_dev to avoid UAF bugs")
Suggested-by: default avatarDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDuoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/361bbf2a4b091e120006279ec3b382d73c4a0c17.1715247018.git.duoming@zju.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent a7d6e36b
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