CVE: CVE-2021-47237
Published: 2024-05-21
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: hamradio: fix memory leak in mkiss_close

My local syzbot instance hit memory leak in
mkiss_open()[1]. The problem was in missing
free_netdev() in mkiss_close().

In mkiss_open() netdevice is allocated and then
registered, but in mkiss_close() netdevice was
only unregistered, but not freed.

Fail log:

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff8880281ba000 (size 4096):
  comm "syz-executor.1", pid 11443, jiffies[PII_REDACTED] (age 17.660s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    61 78 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ax0.............
    00 27 fa 2a 80 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  .'.*............
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff81a27201>] kvmalloc_node+0x61/0xf0
    [<ffffffff8706e7e8>] alloc_netdev_mqs+0x98/0xe80
    [<ffffffff84e64192>] mkiss_open+0xb2/0x6f0 [1]
    [<ffffffff842355db>] tty_ldisc_open+0x9b/0x110
    [<ffffffff84236488>] tty_set_ldisc+0x2e8/0x670
    [<ffffffff8421f7f3>] tty_ioctl+0xda3/0x1440
    [<ffffffff81c9f273>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x200
    [<ffffffff8911263a>] do_syscall_64+0x3a/0xb0
    [<ffffffff89200068>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff8880141a9a00 (size 96):
  comm "syz-executor.1", pid 11443, jiffies[PII_REDACTED] (age 17.660s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    e8 a2 1b 28 80 88 ff ff e8 a2 1b 28 80 88 ff ff  ...(.......(....
    98 92 9c aa b0 40 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  .....@..........
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff8709f68b>] __hw_addr_create_ex+0x5b/0x310
    [<ffffffff8709fb38>] __hw_addr_add_ex+0x1f8/0x2b0
    [<ffffffff870a0c7b>] dev_addr_init+0x10b/0x1f0
    [<ffffffff8706e88b>] alloc_netdev_mqs+0x13b/0xe80
    [<ffffffff84e64192>] mkiss_open+0xb2/0x6f0 [1]
    [<ffffffff842355db>] tty_ldisc_open+0x9b/0x110
    [<ffffffff84236488>] tty_set_ldisc+0x2e8/0x670
    [<ffffffff8421f7f3>] tty_ioctl+0xda3/0x1440
    [<ffffffff81c9f273>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x200
    [<ffffffff8911263a>] do_syscall_64+0x3a/0xb0
    [<ffffffff89200068>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff8880219bfc00 (size 512):
  comm "syz-executor.1", pid 11443, jiffies[PII_REDACTED] (age 17.660s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 a0 1b 28 80 88 ff ff 80 8f b1 8d ff ff ff ff  ...(............
    80 8f b1 8d ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff81a27201>] kvmalloc_node+0x61/0xf0
    [<ffffffff8706eec7>] alloc_netdev_mqs+0x777/0xe80
    [<ffffffff84e64192>] mkiss_open+0xb2/0x6f0 [1]
    [<ffffffff842355db>] tty_ldisc_open+0x9b/0x110
    [<ffffffff84236488>] tty_set_ldisc+0x2e8/0x670
    [<ffffffff8421f7f3>] tty_ioctl+0xda3/0x1440
    [<ffffffff81c9f273>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x200
    [<ffffffff8911263a>] do_syscall_64+0x3a/0xb0
    [<ffffffff89200068>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888029b2b200 (size 256):
  comm "syz-executor.1", pid 11443, jiffies[PII_REDACTED] (age 17.660s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff81a27201>] kvmalloc_node+0x61/0xf0
    [<ffffffff8706f062>] alloc_netdev_mqs+0x912/0xe80
    [<ffffffff84e64192>] mkiss_open+0xb2/0x6f0 [1]
    [<ffffffff842355db>] tty_ldisc_open+0x9b/0x110
    [<ffffffff84236488>] tty_set_ldisc+0x2e8/0x670
    [<ffffffff8421f7f3>] tty_ioctl+0xda3/0x1440
    [<ffffffff81c9f273>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x200
    [<ffffffff8911263a>] do_syscall_64+0x3a/0xb0
    [<ffffffff89200068>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
CWE: CWE-401
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/290b0b6432e2599021db0b8d6046f756d931c29f; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3942d0f9ace1a95a74930b5b4fc0e5005c62b37b; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/765a8a04f828db7222b36a42b1031f576bfe95c3