From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
kbuild@01.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: Fix memory leak in nf_register_net_hook
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 09:14:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150720071438.GA3826@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87si8lh4ph.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 10:21:14AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> In the rare case that when it is a attempted to use a per network device
> netfilter hook and the network device does not exist the newly allocated
> structure can leak.
>
> Be a good citizen and free the newly allocated structure in the error
> handling code.
Applied.
parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-20 7:08 UTC|newest]
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