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SubjectRe: [PATCH] veth: fix memory leak in veth_newlink()
On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 09:16:32AM +0900, Toshiaki Makita wrote:
> On 2020/08/30 22:13, Rustam Kovhaev wrote:
> > when register_netdevice(dev) fails we should check whether struct
> > veth_rq has been allocated via ndo_init callback and free it, because,
> > depending on the code path, register_netdevice() might not call
> > priv_destructor() callback
>
> AFAICS, register_netdevice() always goto err_uninit and calls priv_destructor()
> on failure after ndo_init() succeeded.
> So I could not find such a code path.
> Would you elaborate on it?

in net/core/dev.c:9863, where register_netdevice() calls rollback_registered(),
which does not call priv_destructor(), then register_netdevice() returns error
net/core/dev.c:9884

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