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SubjectRe: memory leak in sctp_stream_init
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 09:37:16PM -0300, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:56:38AM -0300, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> ...
> > Considering that genradix_prealloc() failure is not fatal, seems the
> > fix here is to just ignore the failure in sctp_stream_alloc_out() and
> > let genradix try again later on.
>
> Better yet, this fixes it here:
>
> ---8<---
>
> diff --git a/net/sctp/stream.c b/net/sctp/stream.c
> index df60b5ef24cb..e0b01bf912b3 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/stream.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/stream.c
> @@ -84,8 +84,10 @@ static int sctp_stream_alloc_out(struct sctp_stream *stream, __u16 outcnt,
> return 0;
>
> ret = genradix_prealloc(&stream->out, outcnt, gfp);
> - if (ret)
> + if (ret) {
> + genradix_free(&stream->out);
> return ret;
> + }
>
> stream->outcnt = outcnt;
> return 0;
> @@ -100,8 +102,10 @@ static int sctp_stream_alloc_in(struct sctp_stream *stream, __u16 incnt,
> return 0;
>
> ret = genradix_prealloc(&stream->in, incnt, gfp);
> - if (ret)
> + if (ret) {
> + genradix_free(&stream->in);
> return ret;
> + }
>
> stream->incnt = incnt;
> return 0;
>
I get how that fixes this, but that doesn't really seem like the right fix in my
mind. Shouldn't genradix_prealloc internally free any memory its allocated if
it fails part way through its operation?

Neil

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