From 9077f052abd5391a866dd99e27212213648becef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 08:59:24 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] net: propagate errors correctly in register_netdevice() If netdev_name_node_head_alloc() fails to allocate memory, we absolutely want register_netdevice() to return -ENOMEM instead of zero :/ One of the syzbot report looked like : general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN CPU: 1 PID: 8760 Comm: syz-executor839 Not tainted 5.3.0+ #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 RIP: 0010:ovs_vport_add+0x185/0x500 net/openvswitch/vport.c:205 Code: 89 c6 e8 3e b6 3a fa 49 81 fc 00 f0 ff ff 0f 87 6d 02 00 00 e8 8c b4 3a fa 4c 89 e2 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 d3 02 00 00 49 8d 7c 24 08 49 8b 34 24 48 b8 00 RSP: 0018:ffff88808fe5f4e0 EFLAGS: 00010247 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffffff89be8820 RCX: ffffffff87385162 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff87385174 RDI: 0000000000000007 RBP: ffff88808fe5f510 R08: ffff8880933c6600 R09: fffffbfff14ee13c R10: fffffbfff14ee13b R11: ffffffff8a7709df R12: 0000000000000004 R13: ffffffff89be8850 R14: ffff88808fe5f5e0 R15: 0000000000000002 FS: 0000000001d71880(0000) GS:ffff8880ae900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000020000280 CR3: 0000000096e4c000 CR4: 00000000001406e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: new_vport+0x1b/0x1d0 net/openvswitch/datapath.c:194 ovs_dp_cmd_new+0x5e5/0xe30 net/openvswitch/datapath.c:1644 genl_family_rcv_msg+0x74b/0xf90 net/netlink/genetlink.c:629 genl_rcv_msg+0xca/0x170 net/netlink/genetlink.c:654 netlink_rcv_skb+0x177/0x450 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2477 genl_rcv+0x29/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:665 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1302 [inline] netlink_unicast+0x531/0x710 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1328 netlink_sendmsg+0x8a5/0xd60 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1917 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:637 [inline] sock_sendmsg+0xd7/0x130 net/socket.c:657 ___sys_sendmsg+0x803/0x920 net/socket.c:2311 __sys_sendmsg+0x105/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2356 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2365 [inline] __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2363 [inline] __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x78/0xb0 net/socket.c:2363 Fixes: ff92741270bf ("net: introduce name_node struct to be used in hashlist") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jiri Pirko Reported-by: syzbot Tested-by: Willem de Bruijn Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/dev.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index c680225e0da8..944de67ee95d 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -8935,6 +8935,7 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev) if (ret < 0) goto out; + ret = -ENOMEM; dev->name_node = netdev_name_node_head_alloc(dev); if (!dev->name_node) goto out; -- 2.30.2