Re: [PATCH][RFC] netfilter: Fix small leak in ipq_build_packet_message()

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

On 17.07.2011 19:46, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> ipq_build_packet_message() in net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_queue.c and
> net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_queue.c contain a small potential mem leak as
> far as I can tell.
> 
> We allocate memory for 'skb' with alloc_skb() annd then call
>  nlh = NLMSG_PUT(skb, 0, 0, IPQM_PACKET, size - sizeof(*nlh));
> 
> NLMSG_PUT is a macro
>  NLMSG_PUT(skb, pid, seq, type, len) \
>   		NLMSG_NEW(skb, pid, seq, type, len, 0)
> 
> that expands to NLMSG_NEW, which is also a macro which expands to:
>  NLMSG_NEW(skb, pid, seq, type, len, flags) \
>   	({	if (unlikely(skb_tailroom(skb) < (int)NLMSG_SPACE(len))) \
>   			goto nlmsg_failure; \
>   		__nlmsg_put(skb, pid, seq, type, len, flags); })
> 
> If we take the true branch of the 'if' statement and 'goto
> nlmsg_failure', then we'll, at that point, return from
> ipq_build_packet_message() without having assigned 'skb' to anything
> and we'll leak the memory we allocated for it when it goes out of
> scope.
> 
> Fix this by placing a 'kfree(skb)' at 'nlmsg_failure'.
> 
> I admit that I do not know how likely this to actually happen or even
> if there's something that guarantees that it will never happen - I'm
> not that familiar with this code, but if that is so, I've not been
> able to spot it.
> 
> Please review and commit if you believe this is correct. Thanks.
> 

Looks correct, applied, thanks.