net: fix potential refcount leak in ndisc_router_discovery()
authorXin Xiong <xiongx18@fudan.edu.cn>
Sat, 13 Aug 2022 12:49:08 +0000 (20:49 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 25 Aug 2022 09:40:24 +0000 (11:40 +0200)
commitffb15594433391fd7885eb88ce5a7f7bdeefbb15
tree126c915b07f6105adc4068801f2cf705426f60dc
parentc7118a579106e4b1a81727933e1fd51829e03210
net: fix potential refcount leak in ndisc_router_discovery()

commit 7396ba87f1edf549284869451665c7c4e74ecd4f upstream.

The issue happens on specific paths in the function. After both the
object `rt` and `neigh` are grabbed successfully, when `lifetime` is
nonzero but the metric needs change, the function just deletes the
route and set `rt` to NULL. Then, it may try grabbing `rt` and `neigh`
again if above conditions hold. The function simply overwrite `neigh`
if succeeds or returns if fails, without decreasing the reference
count of previous `neigh`. This may result in memory leaks.

Fix it by decrementing the reference count of `neigh` in place.

Fixes: 6b2e04bc240f ("net: allow user to set metric on default route learned via Router Advertisement")
Signed-off-by: Xin Xiong <xiongx18@fudan.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Xin Tan <tanxin.ctf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/ipv6/ndisc.c