From 50754d2188b04a679a249fb57751542643a436e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wei Yongjun Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:34:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] genetlink: fix possible memory leak in genl_family_rcv_msg() 'attrbuf' is malloced in genl_family_rcv_msg() when family->maxattr && family->parallel_ops, thus should be freed before leaving from the error handling cases, otherwise it will cause memory leak. Introduced by commit def3117493eafd9dfa1f809d861e0031b2cc8a07 (genl: Allow concurrent genl callbacks.) Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/netlink/genetlink.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c index 2f72598dd8fe..2fd6dbea327a 100644 --- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c @@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ static int genl_family_rcv_msg(struct genl_family *family, err = nlmsg_parse(nlh, hdrlen, attrbuf, family->maxattr, ops->policy); if (err < 0) - return err; + goto out; } info.snd_seq = nlh->nlmsg_seq; @@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ static int genl_family_rcv_msg(struct genl_family *family, if (family->pre_doit) { err = family->pre_doit(ops, skb, &info); if (err) - return err; + goto out; } err = ops->doit(skb, &info); @@ -621,6 +621,7 @@ static int genl_family_rcv_msg(struct genl_family *family, if (family->post_doit) family->post_doit(ops, skb, &info); +out: if (family->parallel_ops) kfree(attrbuf); -- 2.39.2