Commit 165c34fb authored Jan 25, 2026 by Kuniyuki Iwashima Committed by Jakub Kicinski Jan 26, 2026

nfc: llcp: Fix memleak in nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame().



syzbot reported various memory leaks related to NFC, struct
nfc_llcp_sock, sk_buff, nfc_dev, etc. [0]

The leading log hinted that nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame() failed
to allocate skb due to sock_error(sk) being -ENXIO.

ENXIO is set by nfc_llcp_socket_release() when struct
nfc_llcp_local is destroyed by local_cleanup().

The problem is that there is no synchronisation between
nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame() and local_cleanup(), and skb
could be put into local->tx_queue after it was purged in
local_cleanup():

  CPU1                          CPU2
  ----                          ----
  nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame()      local_cleanup()
  |- do {                       '
     |- pdu = nfc_alloc_send_skb(..., &err)
     |                          .
     |                          |- nfc_llcp_socket_release(local, false, ENXIO);
     |                          |- skb_queue_purge(&local->tx_queue);      |
     |                          '                                          |
     |- skb_queue_tail(&local->tx_queue, pdu);                             |
    ...                                                                    |
     |- pdu = nfc_alloc_send_skb(..., &err)                                |
                                       ^._________________________________.'

local_cleanup() is called for struct nfc_llcp_local only
after nfc_llcp_remove_local() unlinks it from llcp_devices.

If we hold local->tx_queue.lock then, we can synchronise
the thread and nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame().

Let's do that and check list_empty(&local->list) before
queuing skb to local->tx_queue in nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame().

[0]:
[   56.074943][ T6096] llcp: nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame: Could not allocate PDU (error=-6)
[   64.318868][ T5813] kmemleak: 6 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff8881272f6800 (size 1024):
  comm "syz.0.17", pid 6096, jiffies 4294942766
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    27 00 03 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  '..@............
  backtrace (crc da58d84d):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4979 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5284 [inline]
    __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5645 [inline]
    __kmalloc_noprof+0x3e3/0x6b0 mm/slub.c:5658
    kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:961 [inline]
    sk_prot_alloc+0x11a/0x1b0 net/core/sock.c:2239
    sk_alloc+0x36/0x360 net/core/sock.c:2295
    nfc_llcp_sock_alloc+0x37/0x130 net/nfc/llcp_sock.c:979
    llcp_sock_create+0x71/0xd0 net/nfc/llcp_sock.c:1044
    nfc_sock_create+0xc9/0xf0 net/nfc/af_nfc.c:31
    __sock_create+0x1a9/0x340 net/socket.c:1605
    sock_create net/socket.c:1663 [inline]
    __sys_socket_create net/socket.c:1700 [inline]
    __sys_socket+0xb9/0x1a0 net/socket.c:1747
    __do_sys_socket net/socket.c:1761 [inline]
    __se_sys_socket net/socket.c:1759 [inline]
    __x64_sys_socket+0x1b/0x30 net/socket.c:1759
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0xa4/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810fbd9800 (size 240):
  comm "syz.0.17", pid 6096, jiffies 4294942850
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    68 f0 ff 08 81 88 ff ff 68 f0 ff 08 81 88 ff ff  h.......h.......
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 68 2f 27 81 88 ff ff  .........h/'....
  backtrace (crc 6cc652b1):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4979 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5284 [inline]
    kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x36f/0x5e0 mm/slub.c:5336
    __alloc_skb+0x203/0x240 net/core/skbuff.c:660
    alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1383 [inline]
    alloc_skb_with_frags+0x69/0x3f0 net/core/skbuff.c:6671
    sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x379/0x3e0 net/core/sock.c:2965
    sock_alloc_send_skb include/net/sock.h:1859 [inline]
    nfc_alloc_send_skb+0x45/0x80 net/nfc/core.c:724
    nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame+0x162/0x360 net/nfc/llcp_commands.c:766
    llcp_sock_sendmsg+0x14c/0x1d0 net/nfc/llcp_sock.c:814
    sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]
    __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:742 [inline]
    __sys_sendto+0x2d8/0x2f0 net/socket.c:2244
    __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2251 [inline]
    __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2247 [inline]
    __x64_sys_sendto+0x28/0x30 net/socket.c:2247
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0xa4/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Fixes: 94f418a2 ("NFC: UI frame sending routine implementation")
Reported-by:  <syzbot+f2d245f1d76bbfa50e4c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/697569c7.a00a0220.33ccc7.0014.GAE@google.com/T/#u


Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260125010214.1572439-1-kuniyu@google.com


Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

parent 2c849591

net/nfc/llcp_commands.c

+16 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -778,8 +778,23 @@ int nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame(struct nfc_llcp_sock *sock, u8 ssap, u8 dsap,
		if (likely(frag_len > 0))
		skb_put_data(pdu, msg_ptr, frag_len);

		spin_lock(&local->tx_queue.lock);

		if (list_empty(&local->list)) {
		spin_unlock(&local->tx_queue.lock);

		kfree_skb(pdu);

		len -= remaining_len;
		if (len == 0)
		len = -ENXIO;
		break;
		}

		/* No need to check for the peer RW for UI frames */
		skb_queue_tail(&local->tx_queue, pdu);
		__skb_queue_tail(&local->tx_queue, pdu);

		spin_unlock(&local->tx_queue.lock);

		remaining_len -= frag_len;
		msg_ptr += frag_len;

net/nfc/llcp_core.c

+3 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -316,7 +316,9 @@ static struct nfc_llcp_local nfc_llcp_remove_local(struct nfc_dev dev)
		spin_lock(&llcp_devices_lock);
		list_for_each_entry_safe(local, tmp, &llcp_devices, list)
		if (local->dev == dev) {
		list_del(&local->list);
		spin_lock(&local->tx_queue.lock);
		list_del_init(&local->list);
		spin_unlock(&local->tx_queue.lock);
		spin_unlock(&llcp_devices_lock);
		return local;
		}