Commit 22e7987a authored Apr 25, 2014 by Ying Xue Committed by David S. Miller Apr 27, 2014

tipc: fix a possible memory leak



The commit a8b9b96e ("tipc: fix race
in disc create/delete") leads to the following static checker warning:

	net/tipc/discover.c:352 tipc_disc_create()
		warn: possible memory leak of 'req'

The risk of memory leak really exists in practice. Especially when
it's failed to allocate memory for "req->buf", tipc_disc_create()
doesn't free its allocated memory, instead just directly returns
with ENOMEM error code. In this situation, memory leak, of course,
happens.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent a42c3a28

net/tipc/discover.c

+3 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -348,8 +348,10 @@ int tipc_disc_create(struct tipc_bearer b_ptr, struct tipc_media_addr dest)
		return -ENOMEM;

		req->buf = tipc_buf_acquire(INT_H_SIZE);
		if (!req->buf)
		if (!req->buf) {
		kfree(req);
		return -ENOMEM;
		}

		tipc_disc_init_msg(req->buf, DSC_REQ_MSG, b_ptr);
		memcpy(&req->dest, dest, sizeof(*dest));

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