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 --- net/netrom/nr_out.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netrom/nr_out.c b/net/netrom/nr_out.c index 5e531394a724..2b3cbceb0b52 100644 --- a/net/netrom/nr_out.c +++ b/net/netrom/nr_out.c @@ -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); -- 2.34.1