netdev - [RFC/BUG] ipv6: bug in "ipv6: Copy cork options in ip6_append

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Date:	Thu, 16 May 2013 15:23:10 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Subject: [RFC/BUG] ipv6: bug in "ipv6: Copy cork options in ip6_append_data"

Hi Herbert

Looking at the code added in commit 0178b695fd6b40a62a215cb
("ipv6: Copy cork options in ip6_append_data") it looks like we can have
either a memleak or corruption (later in ip6_cork_release()) in case one
of the sub-allocation (ip6_opt_dup()/ip6_rthdr_dup()) fails.

I would at least use a kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() in 

np->cork.opt = kmalloc(opt->tot_len, sk->sk_allocation);

Or maybe better, reuse the code in  ipv6_dup_options() so that we
perform a single memory allocation ?

Am I missing something obvious ?

Thanks !

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