[PATCH v2] net-sysfs: call dev_hold if kobject_init_and_add success
William Breathitt Gray
william.gray at canonical.com
Tue Aug 11 20:36:11 UTC 2020
From: YueHaibing <yuehaibing at huawei.com>
In netdev_queue_add_kobject and rx_queue_add_kobject,
if sysfs_create_group failed, kobject_put will call
netdev_queue_release to decrease dev refcont, however
dev_hold has not be called. So we will see this while
unregistering dev:
unregister_netdevice: waiting for bcsh0 to become free. Usage count = -1
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci at huawei.com>
Fixes: d0d668371679 ("net: don't decrement kobj reference count on init failure")
Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing at huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
CVE-2019-20811
(backported from commit a3e23f719f5c4a38ffb3d30c8d7632a4ed8ccd9e)
[ William Breathitt Gray: context adjustments ]
Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <william.gray at canonical.com>
---
net/core/net-sysfs.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index eafcbddae408..b997abf5a60c 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -895,6 +895,8 @@ static int rx_queue_add_kobject(struct net_device *dev, int index)
if (error)
goto exit;
+ dev_hold(queue->dev);
+
if (dev->sysfs_rx_queue_group) {
error = sysfs_create_group(kobj, dev->sysfs_rx_queue_group);
if (error)
@@ -902,7 +904,6 @@ static int rx_queue_add_kobject(struct net_device *dev, int index)
}
kobject_uevent(kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
- dev_hold(queue->dev);
return error;
exit:
@@ -1291,6 +1292,8 @@ static int netdev_queue_add_kobject(struct net_device *dev, int index)
if (error)
goto exit;
+ dev_hold(queue->dev);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_BQL
error = sysfs_create_group(kobj, &dql_group);
if (error)
@@ -1298,7 +1301,6 @@ static int netdev_queue_add_kobject(struct net_device *dev, int index)
#endif
kobject_uevent(kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
- dev_hold(queue->dev);
return 0;
exit:
--
2.25.1
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