linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] veth: fix memory leak in veth

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Date:   Mon, 31 Aug 2020 09:16:32 +0900
From:   Toshiaki Makita <toshiaki.makita1@...il.com>
To:     Rustam Kovhaev <rkovhaev@...il.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        kuba@...nel.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] veth: fix memory leak in veth_newlink()

On 2020/08/30 22:13, Rustam Kovhaev wrote:
> when register_netdevice(dev) fails we should check whether struct
> veth_rq has been allocated via ndo_init callback and free it, because,
> depending on the code path, register_netdevice() might not call
> priv_destructor() callback

AFAICS, register_netdevice() always goto err_uninit and calls priv_destructor()
on failure after ndo_init() succeeded.
So I could not find such a code path.
Would you elaborate on it?

Thanks,
Toshiaki Makita