From: Jesper Juhl Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 04:28:16 +0000 (+0000) Subject: ieee802154: Don't leak memory in ieee802154_nl_fill_phy X-Git-Tag: upstream/snapshot3+hdmi~9829^2~29 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b9cabe52c27cf834137f3aaa46da23bcf32284e8;hp=84860c725364372a331589a600ce6a00437a14f8;p=platform%2Fadaptation%2Frenesas_rcar%2Frenesas_kernel.git ieee802154: Don't leak memory in ieee802154_nl_fill_phy In net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c::ieee802154_nl_fill_phy() I see two small issues. 1) If the allocation of 'buf' fails we may just as well return -EMSGSIZE directly rather than jumping to 'out:' and do a pointless kfree(0). 2) We do not free 'buf' unless we jump to one of the error labels and this leaks memory. This patch should address both. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl Acked-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c index ed0eab3..02548b2 100644 --- a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c +++ b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ static int ieee802154_nl_fill_phy(struct sk_buff *msg, u32 pid, pr_debug("%s\n", __func__); if (!buf) - goto out; + return -EMSGSIZE; hdr = genlmsg_put(msg, 0, seq, &nl802154_family, flags, IEEE802154_LIST_PHY); @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ static int ieee802154_nl_fill_phy(struct sk_buff *msg, u32 pid, pages * sizeof(uint32_t), buf); mutex_unlock(&phy->pib_lock); + kfree(buf); return genlmsg_end(msg, hdr); nla_put_failure: