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authorQingfang Deng <dqfext@gmail.com>2025-09-03 18:07:26 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-09-09 18:58:14 +0200
commit631fc8ab5beb9e0ec8651fb9875b9a968e7b4ae4 (patch)
tree8f19adcaa2de4fcebe4456501c94f7d08c5ddbde
parentd0ecda6fdd840b406df6617b003b036f65dd8926 (diff)
ppp: fix memory leak in pad_compress_skb
[ Upstream commit 4844123fe0b853a4982c02666cb3fd863d701d50 ] If alloc_skb() fails in pad_compress_skb(), it returns NULL without releasing the old skb. The caller does: skb = pad_compress_skb(ppp, skb); if (!skb) goto drop; drop: kfree_skb(skb); When pad_compress_skb() returns NULL, the reference to the old skb is lost and kfree_skb(skb) ends up doing nothing, leading to a memory leak. Align pad_compress_skb() semantics with realloc(): only free the old skb if allocation and compression succeed. At the call site, use the new_skb variable so the original skb is not lost when pad_compress_skb() fails. Fixes: b3f9b92a6ec1 ("[PPP]: add PPP MPPE encryption module") Signed-off-by: Qingfang Deng <dqfext@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Yue Haibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250903100726.269839-1-dqfext@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
index 0553b0b356b3..afc1566488b3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
@@ -1753,7 +1753,6 @@ pad_compress_skb(struct ppp *ppp, struct sk_buff *skb)
*/
if (net_ratelimit())
netdev_err(ppp->dev, "ppp: compressor dropped pkt\n");
- kfree_skb(skb);
consume_skb(new_skb);
new_skb = NULL;
}
@@ -1855,9 +1854,10 @@ ppp_send_frame(struct ppp *ppp, struct sk_buff *skb)
"down - pkt dropped.\n");
goto drop;
}
- skb = pad_compress_skb(ppp, skb);
- if (!skb)
+ new_skb = pad_compress_skb(ppp, skb);
+ if (!new_skb)
goto drop;
+ skb = new_skb;
}
/*