Commit d46a3d0d authored Oct 29, 2006 by Oleg Nesterov Committed by Linus Torvalds Oct 29, 2006

[PATCH] taskstats: fix sk_buff leak



'return genlmsg_cancel()' in taskstats_user_cmd/taskstats_exit_send
potentially leaks a skb.  Unless we pass 'rep_skb' to the netlink layer
we own sk_buff.  This means we should always do kfree_skb() on failure.

[ Thomas acked and pointed out missing return value in original version ]

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent 5211e6e6

kernel/taskstats.c

+1 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ static int taskstats_user_cmd(struct sk_buff skb, struct genl_info info)
		return send_reply(rep_skb, info->snd_pid);

		nla_put_failure:
		return genlmsg_cancel(rep_skb, reply);
		rc = genlmsg_cancel(rep_skb, reply);
		err:
		nlmsg_free(rep_skb);
		return rc;
		@@ -507,7 +507,6 @@ send:

		nla_put_failure:
		genlmsg_cancel(rep_skb, reply);
		goto ret;
		err_skb:
		nlmsg_free(rep_skb);
		ret:

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