* [PATCH] fix memory leak in socket.c
@ 2002-07-15 23:09 Robert Love
2002-07-16 5:27 ` David S. Miller
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From: Robert Love @ 2002-07-15 23:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
This fixes a memory leak in sock_fasync :: net/socket.c.
I sent a fix to Linus and it is now in 2.5.
2.4 and 2.4-ac still require the fix... the following patch applies to
2.4.19-rc1 and 2.4.19-rc1-ac5.
Robert Love
diff -urN linux-2.4.19-sausage/net/socket.c linux/net/socket.c
--- linux-sausage/net/socket.c Mon Jun 10 15:26:30 2002
+++ linux/net/socket.c Mon Jun 10 15:37:48 2002
@@ -743,11 +743,13 @@
return -ENOMEM;
}
-
sock = socki_lookup(filp->f_dentry->d_inode);
- if ((sk=sock->sk) == NULL)
+ if ((sk=sock->sk) == NULL) {
+ if (fna)
+ kfree(fna);
return -EINVAL;
+ }
lock_sock(sk);
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