From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756114Ab0EaOeh (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 May 2010 10:34:37 -0400 Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:58951 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756048Ab0EaOeg (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 May 2010 10:34:36 -0400 Message-ID: <4C03C8F8.8050602@trash.net> Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 16:34:32 +0200 From: Patrick McHardy User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090701) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: Xiaotian Feng , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , Andrew Morton , Rusty Russell , Alexey Dobriyan Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: don't xt_jumpstack_alloc twice in xt_register_table References: <1275303998-2435-1-git-send-email-dfeng@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Monday 2010-05-31 13:51, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Monday 2010-05-31 13:06, Xiaotian Feng wrote: >> >>> In xt_register_table, xt_jumpstack_alloc is called first, later >>> xt_replace_table is used. But in xt_replace_table, xt_jumpstack_alloc >>> will be used again. Then the memory allocated by previous xt_jumpstack_alloc >>> will be leaked. We can simply remove the previous xt_jumpstack_alloc because >>> there aren't any users of newinfo between xt_jumpstack_alloc and >>> xt_replace_table. >> Indeed that seems to be so. > > Acked-By: Jan Engelhardt Applied, thanks everyone.