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* [PATCH] fm10k: fix memory leak
@ 2015-11-17 22:24 Stephen Hemminger
  2015-11-18 20:06 ` David Miller
  2015-11-18 21:53 ` Eric Dumazet
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2015-11-17 22:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jeff Kirsher; +Cc: netdev

This was detected by Coverity.
The function skb_cow_head leaves skb alone on failure, so caller needs
to free.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_netdev.c	2015-11-17 13:33:40.032694657 -0800
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_netdev.c	2015-11-17 14:13:03.086942495 -0800
@@ -627,8 +627,10 @@ static netdev_tx_t fm10k_xmit_frame(stru
 
 		/* verify the skb head is not shared */
 		err = skb_cow_head(skb, 0);
-		if (err)
+		if (err) {
+			dev_kfree_skb(skb);
 			return NETDEV_TX_OK;
+		}
 
 		/* locate vlan header */
 		vhdr = (struct vlan_hdr *)(skb->data + ETH_HLEN);

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