From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
Thomas Egerer <thomas.egerer@secunet.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] xfrm: Fix xfrm_state_migrate leak
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 10:28:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101207092856.GL4639@secunet.com> (raw)
From: Thomas Egerer <thomas.egerer@secunet.com>
xfrm_state_migrate calls kfree instead of xfrm_state_put to free
a failed state. According to git commit 553f9118 this can cause
memory leaks.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Egerer <thomas.egerer@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
---
net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
index eb96ce5..220ebc0 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
@@ -1268,7 +1268,7 @@ struct xfrm_state * xfrm_state_migrate(struct xfrm_state *x,
return xc;
error:
- kfree(xc);
+ xfrm_state_put(xc);
return NULL;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(xfrm_state_migrate);
--
1.7.0.4
next reply other threads:[~2010-12-07 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-07 9:28 Steffen Klassert [this message]
2010-12-07 9:31 ` [PATCH] xfrm: Fix xfrm_state_migrate leak Herbert Xu
2010-12-10 4:36 ` David Miller
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