From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Russel Senior , Antonio Quartulli , Marek Lindner Subject: [PATCH 3.13 070/172] batman-adv: free skb on TVLV parsing success Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 12:02:34 -0800 Message-Id: <20140304200301.981664134@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20140304200259.626667112@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20140304200259.626667112@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.13-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Antonio Quartulli [ Upstream commit 05c3c8a636aa9ee35ce13f65afc5b665615cc786 ] When the TVLV parsing routine succeed the skb is left untouched thus leading to a memory leak. Fix this by consuming the skb in case of success. Introduced by ef26157747d42254453f6b3ac2bd8bd3c53339c3 ("batman-adv: tvlv - basic infrastructure") Reported-by: Russel Senior Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli Tested-by: Russell Senior Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/batman-adv/routing.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/net/batman-adv/routing.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/routing.c @@ -1063,6 +1063,8 @@ int batadv_recv_unicast_tvlv(struct sk_b if (ret != NET_RX_SUCCESS) ret = batadv_route_unicast_packet(skb, recv_if); + else + consume_skb(skb); return ret; }