batman-adv: Fix refcnt leak in batadv_store_throughput_override
authorXiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@fudan.edu.cn>
Wed, 15 Apr 2020 08:35:21 +0000 (16:35 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 20 May 2020 06:15:28 +0000 (08:15 +0200)
commitc62006cf13a7071e40d879097bd280517e05a70e
treed3e0a0a171ae79913560a7f9ca9abf4c817015f1
parentf9d0df8c4c9e709c3c0b77de917e260ac0bd9f09
batman-adv: Fix refcnt leak in batadv_store_throughput_override

commit 6107c5da0fca8b50b4d3215e94d619d38cc4a18c upstream.

batadv_show_throughput_override() invokes batadv_hardif_get_by_netdev(),
which gets a batadv_hard_iface object from net_dev with increased refcnt
and its reference is assigned to a local pointer 'hard_iface'.

When batadv_store_throughput_override() returns, "hard_iface" becomes
invalid, so the refcount should be decreased to keep refcount balanced.

The issue happens in one error path of
batadv_store_throughput_override(). When batadv_parse_throughput()
returns NULL, the refcnt increased by batadv_hardif_get_by_netdev() is
not decreased, causing a refcnt leak.

Fix this issue by jumping to "out" label when batadv_parse_throughput()
returns NULL.

Fixes: 0b5ecc6811bd ("batman-adv: add throughput override attribute to hard_ifaces")
Signed-off-by: Xiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@fudan.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Xin Tan <tanxin.ctf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/batman-adv/sysfs.c