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From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@wp.pl>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: [Patch net] genetlink: fix a memory leak on error path
Date: Thu,  3 Nov 2016 09:42:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1478191356-10386-1-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> (raw)

In __genl_register_family(), when genl_validate_assign_mc_groups()
fails, we forget to free the memory we possibly allocate for
family->attrbuf.

Note, some callers call genl_unregister_family() to clean up
on error path, it doesn't work because the family is inserted
to the global list in the nearly last step.

Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@wp.pl>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
---
 net/netlink/genetlink.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index 23cc126..49c28e8 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ int __genl_register_family(struct genl_family *family)
 
 	err = genl_validate_assign_mc_groups(family);
 	if (err)
-		goto errout_locked;
+		goto errout_free;
 
 	list_add_tail(&family->family_list, genl_family_chain(family->id));
 	genl_unlock_all();
@@ -417,6 +417,8 @@ int __genl_register_family(struct genl_family *family)
 
 	return 0;
 
+errout_free:
+	kfree(family->attrbuf);
 errout_locked:
 	genl_unlock_all();
 errout:
-- 
2.1.0

             reply	other threads:[~2016-11-03 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-03 16:42 Cong Wang [this message]
2016-11-03 16:42 ` [Patch net] taskstats: fix the length of cgroupstats_cmd_get_policy Cong Wang
2016-11-03 20:53 ` [Patch net] genetlink: fix a memory leak on error path David Miller

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