linux-kernel - [PATCH] taskstats: cgroupstats_user

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Date:	Tue, 7 Aug 2012 19:59:35 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To:	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] taskstats: cgroupstats_user_cmd() may leak on error

If prepare_reply() succeeds we have allocated memory for 'rep_skb'. If
nla_reserve() then subsequently fails and returns NULL we fail to
release the memory we allocated, thus causing a leak.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
---
 kernel/taskstats.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

 Compile tested only.

diff --git a/kernel/taskstats.c b/kernel/taskstats.c
index d0a3279..37708eb 100644
--- a/kernel/taskstats.c
+++ b/kernel/taskstats.c
@@ -437,6 +437,7 @@ static int cgroupstats_user_cmd(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 	na = nla_reserve(rep_skb, CGROUPSTATS_TYPE_CGROUP_STATS,
 				sizeof(struct cgroupstats));
 	if (na == NULL) {
+		nlmsg_free(rep_skb);
 		rc = -EMSGSIZE;
 		goto err;
 	}
-- 
1.7.11.4


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