Patch "net: bridge: fix early call to br_stp_change_bridge_id and plug newlink leaks" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

net: bridge: fix early call to br_stp_change_bridge_id and plug newlink leaks

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
net-bridge-fix-early-call-to-br_stp_change_bridge_id-and-plug-newlink-leaks.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 17:35:09 +0200
Subject: net: bridge: fix early call to br_stp_change_bridge_id and plug newlink leaks

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 84aeb437ab98a2bce3d4b2111c79723aedfceb33 ]

The early call to br_stp_change_bridge_id in bridge's newlink can cause a memory leak if an error occurs during the newlink because the fdb entries are not cleaned up if a different lladdr was specified, also another minor issue is that it generates fdb notifications with ifindex = 0. Another unrelated memory leak is the bridge sysfs entries which get added on NETDEV_REGISTER event, but are not cleaned up in the newlink error path. To remove this special case the call to br_stp_change_bridge_id is done after netdev register and we cleanup the bridge on changelink error via br_dev_delete to plug all leaks.

This patch makes netlink bridge destruction on newlink error the same as dellink and ioctl del which is necessary since at that point we have a fully initialized bridge device.

To reproduce the issue:

$ ip l add br0 address 00:11:22:33:44:55 type bridge group_fwd_mask 1
RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument

$ rmmod bridge
[ 1822.142525] =============================================================================
[ 1822.143640] BUG bridge_fdb_cache (Tainted: G           O    ): Objects remaining in bridge_fdb_cache on __kmem_cache_shutdown()
[ 1822.144821] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

[ 1822.145990] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[ 1822.146732] INFO: Slab 0x0000000092a844b2 objects=32 used=2 fp=0x00000000fef011b0 flags=0x1ffff8000000100
[ 1822.147700] CPU: 2 PID: 13584 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G    B      O     4.15.0-rc2+ #87
[ 1822.148578] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.7.5-20140531_083030-gandalf 04/01/2014
[ 1822.150008] Call Trace:
[ 1822.150510]  dump_stack+0x78/0xa9
[ 1822.151156]  slab_err+0xb1/0xd3
[ 1822.151834]  ? __kmalloc+0x1bb/0x1ce
[ 1822.152546]  __kmem_cache_shutdown+0x151/0x28b
[ 1822.153395]  shutdown_cache+0x13/0x144
[ 1822.154126]  kmem_cache_destroy+0x1c0/0x1fb
[ 1822.154669]  SyS_delete_module+0x194/0x244
[ 1822.155199]  ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x1a/0x1c
[ 1822.155773]  entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x23/0x9a
[ 1822.156343] RIP: 0033:0x7f929bd38b17
[ 1822.156859] RSP: 002b:00007ffd160e9a98 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000b0
[ 1822.157728] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00005578316ba090 RCX: 00007f929bd38b17
[ 1822.158422] RDX: 00007f929bd9ec60 RSI: 0000000000000800 RDI: 00005578316ba0f0
[ 1822.159114] RBP: 0000000000000003 R08: 00007f929bff5f20 R09: 00007ffd160e8a11
[ 1822.159808] R10: 00007ffd160e9860 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007ffd160e8a80
[ 1822.160513] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00005578316ba090
[ 1822.161278] INFO: Object 0x000000007645de29 @offset=0
[ 1822.161666] INFO: Object 0x00000000d5df2ab5 @offset=128

---
 net/bridge/br_netlink.c |   11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

@@ -1223,19 +1223,20 @@ static int br_dev_newlink(struct net *sr
 	struct net_bridge *br = netdev_priv(dev);
 	int err;
 
+	err = register_netdevice(dev);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
 	if (tb[IFLA_ADDRESS]) {
 		spin_lock_bh(&br->lock);
 		br_stp_change_bridge_id(br, nla_data(tb[IFLA_ADDRESS]));
 		spin_unlock_bh(&br->lock);
 	}
 
-	err = register_netdevice(dev);
-	if (err)
-		return err;
-
 	err = br_changelink(dev, tb, data, extack);
 	if (err)
-		unregister_netdevice(dev);
+		br_dev_delete(dev, NULL);
+
 	return err;
 }
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.14/net-bridge-fix-early-call-to-br_stp_change_bridge_id-and-plug-newlink-leaks.patch