netdev - [PATCH] openvswitch: Fix memory leak in ovs_vport

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Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:27:57 +0200
From:	Christoph Jaeger <cj@...ux.com>
To:	pshelar@...ira.com, davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	dev@...nvswitch.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Jaeger <cj@...ux.com>
Subject: [PATCH] openvswitch: Fix memory leak in ovs_vport_alloc() error path

ovs_vport_alloc() bails out without freeing the memory 'vport' points to.

Picked up by Coverity - CID 1230503.

Fixes: 5cd667b0a4 ("openvswitch: Allow each vport to have an array of 'port_id's.")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Jaeger <cj@...ux.com>
---
 net/openvswitch/vport.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/vport.c b/net/openvswitch/vport.c
index 702fb21..6d8f2ec 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/vport.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/vport.c
@@ -137,8 +137,10 @@ struct vport *ovs_vport_alloc(int priv_size, const struct vport_ops *ops,
 	vport->ops = ops;
 	INIT_HLIST_NODE(&vport->dp_hash_node);
 
-	if (ovs_vport_set_upcall_portids(vport, parms->upcall_portids))
+	if (ovs_vport_set_upcall_portids(vport, parms->upcall_portids)) {
+		kfree(vport);
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+	}
 
 	vport->percpu_stats = netdev_alloc_pcpu_stats(struct pcpu_sw_netstats);
 	if (!vport->percpu_stats) {
-- 
1.9.3

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