[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 170/219] tipc: fix memory leak in tipc_nl_compat_publ_dump

Sasha Levin
2019-11-22T05:52:35Z

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>

[ Upstream commit f87d8ad9233f115db92c6c087d58403b0009ed36 ]

There is a memory leak in case genlmsg_put fails.

Fix this by freeing *args* before return.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1476406 ("Resource leak")
Fixes: 46273cf7e009 ("tipc: fix a missing check of genlmsg_put")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/tipc/netlink_compat.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
index fab0384d2b4b3..b4860084a8f56 100644
--- a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
+++ b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
@@ -983,8 +983,10 @@ static int tipc_nl_compat_publ_dump(struct tipc_nl_compat_msg *msg, u32 sock)

hdr = genlmsg_put(args, 0, 0, &tipc_genl_family, NLM_F_MULTI,
TIPC_NL_PUBL_GET);
- if (!hdr)
+ if (!hdr) {
+ kfree_skb(args);
return -EMSGSIZE;
+ }

nest = nla_nest_start(args, TIPC_NLA_SOCK);
if (!nest) {
--
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