linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] calipso: fix resource leak on calipso

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Date:	Sat, 13 Aug 2016 14:56:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	colin.king@...onical.com
Cc:	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] calipso: fix resource leak on calipso_genopt failure

From: Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 18:17:22 +0100

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Currently, if calipso_genopt fails then the error exit path
> does not free the ipv6_opt_hdr new causing a memory leak. Fix
> this by kfree'ing new on the error exit path.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Applied, thanks.