netfilter: ebtables: fix a memory leak bug in compat

In compat_do_replace(), a temporary buffer is allocated through vmalloc()
to hold entries copied from the user space. The buffer address is firstly
saved to 'newinfo->entries', and later on assigned to 'entries_tmp'. Then
the entries in this temporary buffer is copied to the internal kernel
structure through compat_copy_entries(). If this copy process fails,
compat_do_replace() should be terminated. However, the allocated temporary
buffer is not freed on this path, leading to a memory leak.

To fix the bug, free the buffer before returning from compat_do_replace().

Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@cs.uga.edu>
Reviewed-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

diff --git a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
index 963dfdc..fd84b48 100644 (file)
--- a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
+++ b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
@@ -2261,8 +2261,10 @@ static int compat_do_replace(struct net *net, void __user *user,
        state.buf_kern_len = size64;
 
        ret = compat_copy_entries(entries_tmp, tmp.entries_size, &state);
-       if (WARN_ON(ret < 0))
+       if (WARN_ON(ret < 0)) {
+               vfree(entries_tmp);
                goto out_unlock;
+       }
 
        vfree(entries_tmp);
        tmp.entries_size = size64;