From 7717d9830b5600830f881f300e9e51887f64724c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2019 10:52:23 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] tipc: fix memory leak in tipc_nl_compat_publ_dump [ Upstream commit f87d8ad9233f115db92c6c087d58403b0009ed36 ] There is a memory leak in case genlmsg_put fails. Fix this by freeing *args* before return. Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1476406 ("Resource leak") Fixes: 46273cf7e009 ("tipc: fix a missing check of genlmsg_put") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva Acked-by: Ying Xue Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- net/tipc/netlink_compat.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c index fab0384..b486008 100644 --- a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c +++ b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c @@ -983,8 +983,10 @@ static int tipc_nl_compat_publ_dump(struct tipc_nl_compat_msg *msg, u32 sock) hdr = genlmsg_put(args, 0, 0, &tipc_genl_family, NLM_F_MULTI, TIPC_NL_PUBL_GET); - if (!hdr) + if (!hdr) { + kfree_skb(args); return -EMSGSIZE; + } nest = nla_nest_start(args, TIPC_NLA_SOCK); if (!nest) { -- 2.7.4