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mac80211: fix a memory leak where sta_info is not freed

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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>
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Ahmed Zaki 2021-10-02 08:53:29 -06:00 committed by Johannes Berg
parent 942bd1070c
commit 8f9dcc2956
1 changed files with 3 additions and 3 deletions
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net/mac80211/sta_info.c
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@ -644,13 +644,13 @@ static int sta_info_insert_finish(struct sta_info *sta) __acquires(RCU)
/* check if STA exists already */
if (sta_info_get_bss(sdata, sta->sta.addr)) {
err = -EEXIST;
goto out_err;
goto out_cleanup;
}
sinfo = kzalloc(sizeof(struct station_info), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!sinfo) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto out_err;
goto out_cleanup;
}
local->num_sta++;
@ -706,8 +706,8 @@ static int sta_info_insert_finish(struct sta_info *sta) __acquires(RCU)
out_drop_sta:
local->num_sta--;
synchronize_net();
out_cleanup:
cleanup_single_sta(sta);
out_err:
mutex_unlock(&local->sta_mtx);
kfree(sinfo);
rcu_read_lock();