[artful/linux trusty/linux 1/1] scsi: libsas: fix memory leak in sas_smp_get_phy_events()

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Thu May 24 10:56:43 UTC 2018


From: Jason Yan <yanaijie at huawei.com>

We've got a memory leak with the following producer:

while true;
do cat /sys/class/sas_phy/phy-1:0:12/invalid_dword_count >/dev/null;
done

The buffer req is allocated and not freed after we return. Fix it.

Fixes: 2908d778ab3e ("[SCSI] aic94xx: new driver")
Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanaijie at huawei.com>
CC: John Garry <john.garry at huawei.com>
CC: chenqilin <chenqilin2 at huawei.com>
CC: chenxiang <chenxiang66 at hisilicon.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen at oracle.com>

(cherry picked from commit 4a491b1ab11ca0556d2fda1ff1301e862a2d44c4)
CVE-2018-7757
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c
index 570b2cb2da43..1ecbea8db010 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c
@@ -684,6 +684,7 @@ int sas_smp_get_phy_events(struct sas_phy *phy)
 	phy->phy_reset_problem_count = scsi_to_u32(&resp[24]);
 
  out:
+	kfree(req);
 	kfree(resp);
 	return res;
 
-- 
2.17.0





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