[PATCH] net: macsec: fix potential resource leak in macsec_add_rxsa() and macsec_add_txsa()

From: Jianglei Nie
Date: Mon Jul 04 2022 - 08:33:38 EST


init_rx_sa() allocates relevant resource for rx_sa->stats and rx_sa->
key.tfm with alloc_percpu() and macsec_alloc_tfm(). When some error
occurs after init_rx_sa() is called in macsec_add_rxsa(), the function
released rx_sa with kfree() without releasing rx_sa->stats and rx_sa->
key.tfm, which will lead to a resource leak.

We should call macsec_rxsa_put() instead of kfree() to decrease the ref
count of rx_sa and release the relevant resource if the refcount is 0.
The same bug exists in macsec_add_txsa() for tx_sa as well. This patch
fixes the above two bugs.

Signed-off-by: Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/macsec.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/macsec.c b/drivers/net/macsec.c
index 817577e713d7..ac3ff624a8dd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macsec.c
@@ -1842,7 +1842,7 @@ static int macsec_add_rxsa(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
return 0;

cleanup:
- kfree(rx_sa);
+ macsec_rxsa_put(rx_sa);
rtnl_unlock();
return err;
}
@@ -2085,7 +2085,7 @@ static int macsec_add_txsa(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)

cleanup:
secy->operational = was_operational;
- kfree(tx_sa);
+ macsec_txsa_put(tx_sa);
rtnl_unlock();
return err;
}
--
2.25.1