[PATCH net] netlink: avoid a double skb free in genlmsg_mcast()

Nicolas Dichtel
2018-03-14T20:16:24Z

nlmsg_multicast() consumes always the skb, thus the original skb must be
freed only when this function is called with a clone.

Fixes: cb9f7a9a5c96 ("netlink: ensure to loop over all netns in genlmsg_multicast_allns()")
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
---
net/netlink/genetlink.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index 6f02499ef007..b9ce82c9440f 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ static int genlmsg_mcast(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 portid, unsigned long group,
if (!err)
delivered = true;
else if (err != -ESRCH)
- goto error;
+ return err;
return delivered ? 0 : -ESRCH;
error:
kfree_skb(skb);
--
2.15.1