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From: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@redhat.com
Subject: [2.4] memleak in implementation of the IEEE 802.2 LLC protocol?
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 13:26:56 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030615092656.GA23595@linuxhacker.ru> (raw)

Hello!

   I am trying to teach smatch's unfree script of skbuffers as those could
   create memory leaks if not freed, and I come across this code in
   ./net/802/llc_sendpdu.c::llc_sendipdu() in 2.4.21 kernel:
                tmp=skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
                if(tmp!=NULL)
                {
                        tmp->dev = lp->dev;
                        dev_queue_xmit(skb);
                }
   (and tmp is not used anywhere else)

   Naturally looking at llc_sendipdu() function that have similar construction,
   I think that this small change should be done to avoid memleak
   and to make the code correct, what do you think?

===== net/802/llc_sendpdu.c 1.3 vs edited =====
--- 1.3/net/802/llc_sendpdu.c	Tue Feb  5 10:39:14 2002
+++ edited/net/802/llc_sendpdu.c	Sun Jun 15 13:23:39 2003
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@
 		if(tmp!=NULL)
 		{
 			tmp->dev = lp->dev;
-			dev_queue_xmit(skb);
+			dev_queue_xmit(tmp);
 		}
 		resend_count++;
 		skb = skb->next;

Bye,
    Oleg

                 reply	other threads:[~2003-06-15  9:14 UTC|newest]

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