netdev - [IPSEC]: Fix potential dst leak in xfrm

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Date:	Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:07:29 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [IPSEC]: Fix potential dst leak in xfrm_lookup

Hi Dave:

This patch fixes a possible dst leak that has existed for years.

[IPSEC]: Fix potential dst leak in xfrm_lookup

If we get an error during the actual policy lookup we don't free the
original dst while the caller expects us to always free the original
dst in case of error.

This patch fixes that.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
index 0cb3e8c..265c679 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
@@ -1464,8 +1464,9 @@ restart:
 
 	if (sk && sk->sk_policy[XFRM_POLICY_OUT]) {
 		policy = xfrm_sk_policy_lookup(sk, XFRM_POLICY_OUT, fl);
+		err = PTR_ERR(policy);
 		if (IS_ERR(policy))
-			return PTR_ERR(policy);
+			goto dropdst;
 	}
 
 	if (!policy) {
@@ -1476,8 +1477,9 @@ restart:
 
 		policy = flow_cache_lookup(fl, dst_orig->ops->family,
 					   dir, xfrm_policy_lookup);
+		err = PTR_ERR(policy);
 		if (IS_ERR(policy))
-			return PTR_ERR(policy);
+			goto dropdst;
 	}
 
 	if (!policy)
@@ -1642,8 +1644,9 @@ restart:
 	return 0;
 
 error:
-	dst_release(dst_orig);
 	xfrm_pols_put(pols, npols);
+dropdst:
+	dst_release(dst_orig);
 	*dst_p = NULL;
 	return err;
 }

Cheers,
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