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    tipc: fix unbalanced reference counter · c3317f4d
    Jon Maloy authored
    When a topology subscription is created, we may encounter (or KASAN
    may provoke) a failure to create a corresponding service instance in
    the binding table. Instead of letting the tipc_nametbl_subscribe()
    report the failure back to the caller, the function just makes a warning
    printout and returns, without incrementing the subscription reference
    counter as expected by the caller.
    
    This makes the caller believe that the subscription was successful, so
    it will at a later moment try to unsubscribe the item. This involves
    a sub_put() call. Since the reference counter never was incremented
    in the first place, we get a premature delete of the subscription item,
    followed by a "use-after-free" warning.
    
    We fix this by adding a return value to tipc_nametbl_subscribe() and
    make the caller aware of the failure to subscribe.
    
    This bug seems to always have been around, but this fix only applies
    back to the commit shown below. Given the low risk of this happening
    we believe this to be sufficient.
    
    Fixes: commit 218527fe
    
     ("tipc: replace name table service range
    array with rb tree")
    Reported-by: default avatar <syzbot+aa245f26d42b8305d157@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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