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Message-ID: <m1d3wk2s7y.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 03:25:37 -0700
From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] kobject: free memory if netlink_kernel_create() fails
Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com> writes:
> There is a kfree(ue_sk) missing on the error path if
> netlink_kernel_create() fails.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Oops.
> diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
> index 59c1551..08e15f7 100644
> --- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c
> +++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
> @@ -378,6 +378,7 @@ static int uevent_net_init(struct net *net)
> if (!ue_sk->sk) {
> printk(KERN_ERR
> "kobject_uevent: unable to create netlink socket!\n");
> + kfree(ue_sk);
> return -ENODEV;
> }
> mutex_lock(&uevent_sock_mutex);
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