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netrom: Fix memory leak in nr_sendmsg()
authorWang Liang <wangliang74@huawei.com>
Sat, 29 Nov 2025 04:13:15 +0000 (12:13 +0800)
committerPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Thu, 4 Dec 2025 10:01:17 +0000 (11:01 +0100)
syzbot reported a memory leak [1].

When function sock_alloc_send_skb() return NULL in nr_output(), the
original skb is not freed, which was allocated in nr_sendmsg(). Fix this
by freeing it before return.

[1]
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888129f35500 (size 240):
  comm "syz.0.17", pid 6119, jiffies 4294944652
  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 10 52 28 81 88 ff ff  ..........R(....
  backtrace (crc 1456a3e4):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4983 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5288 [inline]
    kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x36f/0x5e0 mm/slub.c:5340
    __alloc_skb+0x203/0x240 net/core/skbuff.c:660
    alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1383 [inline]
    alloc_skb_with_frags+0x69/0x3f0 net/core/skbuff.c:6671
    sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x379/0x3e0 net/core/sock.c:2965
    sock_alloc_send_skb include/net/sock.h:1859 [inline]
    nr_sendmsg+0x287/0x450 net/netrom/af_netrom.c:1105
    sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]
    __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:742 [inline]
    sock_write_iter+0x293/0x2a0 net/socket.c:1195
    new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]
    vfs_write+0x45d/0x710 fs/read_write.c:686
    ksys_write+0x143/0x170 fs/read_write.c:738
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0xa4/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Reported-by: syzbot+d7abc36bbbb6d7d40b58@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d7abc36bbbb6d7d40b58
Tested-by: syzbot+d7abc36bbbb6d7d40b58@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Wang Liang <wangliang74@huawei.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251129041315.1550766-1-wangliang74@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
net/netrom/nr_out.c

index 5e531394a724b7f919f22ae2be42c8feaafdc22e..2b3cbceb0b52d5121f1d73b9bd7cb54f8b1d87be 100644 (file)
@@ -43,8 +43,10 @@ void nr_output(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
                frontlen = skb_headroom(skb);
 
                while (skb->len > 0) {
-                       if ((skbn = sock_alloc_send_skb(sk, frontlen + NR_MAX_PACKET_SIZE, 0, &err)) == NULL)
+                       if ((skbn = sock_alloc_send_skb(sk, frontlen + NR_MAX_PACKET_SIZE, 0, &err)) == NULL) {
+                               kfree_skb(skb);
                                return;
+                       }
 
                        skb_reserve(skbn, frontlen);