From: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 00:01:03 +0100
Subject: ethtool: fix reference leak in ethnl_set_privflags()
Patch-mainline: v5.7-rc1
Git-commit: b51fb7711a6d0e325d0fdb299cf67c4ec4b88b4b
References: bsc#1176447
Andrew noticed that some handlers for *_SET commands leak a netdev
reference if required ethtool_ops callbacks do not exist. One of them is
ethnl_set_privflags(), a simple reproducer would be e.g.
ip link add veth1 type veth peer name veth2
ethtool --set-priv-flags veth1 foo on
ip link del veth1
Make sure dev_put() is called when ethtool_ops check fails.
Fixes: f265d799596a ("ethtool: set device private flags with PRIVFLAGS_SET request")
Reported-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
net/ethtool/privflags.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/ethtool/privflags.c
+++ b/net/ethtool/privflags.c
@@ -175,9 +175,10 @@ int ethnl_set_privflags(struct sk_buff *
return ret;
dev = req_info.dev;
ops = dev->ethtool_ops;
+ ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
if (!ops->get_priv_flags || !ops->set_priv_flags ||
!ops->get_sset_count || !ops->get_strings)
- return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ goto out_dev;
rtnl_lock();
ret = ethnl_ops_begin(dev);
@@ -204,6 +205,7 @@ out_ops:
ethnl_ops_complete(dev);
out_rtnl:
rtnl_unlock();
+out_dev:
dev_put(dev);
return ret;
}