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SubjectRe: [PATCH] genetlink: Fix a memory leak on error path
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On 21.03.2019 10:02, Yue Haibing wrote:
> From: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
>
> In genl_register_family(), when idr_alloc() fails,
> we forget to free the memory we possibly allocate for
> family->attrbuf.
>
> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
> Fixes: 2ae0f17df1cd ("genetlink: use idr to track families")
> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>

Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>

> ---
> net/netlink/genetlink.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
> index 25eeb6d..f0ec068 100644
> --- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
> +++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
> @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ int genl_register_family(struct genl_family *family)
> start, end + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (family->id < 0) {
> err = family->id;
> - goto errout_locked;
> + goto errout_free;
> }
>
> err = genl_validate_assign_mc_groups(family);
> @@ -385,6 +385,7 @@ int genl_register_family(struct genl_family *family)
>
> errout_remove:
> idr_remove(&genl_fam_idr, family->id);
> +errout_free:
> kfree(family->attrbuf);
> errout_locked:
> genl_unlock_all();
>

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