netdev - [PATCH] bridge: netfilter: fix a memory leak

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Message-Id: <1282280596-18992-1-git-send-email-xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:03:16 +0800
From:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] bridge: netfilter: fix a memory leak

nf_bridge_alloc() always reset the skb->nf_bridge, so we should always
put the old one. skb->nf_bridge->use is initialized in nf_bridge_alloc(),
so we don't need to initialize it again.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
---
 net/bridge/br_netfilter.c |    6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c b/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c
index 2c911c0..7fde554 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c
@@ -159,11 +159,9 @@ static inline struct nf_bridge_info *nf_bridge_unshare(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	if (atomic_read(&nf_bridge->use) > 1) {
 		struct nf_bridge_info *tmp = nf_bridge_alloc(skb);
 
-		if (tmp) {
+		if (tmp)
 			memcpy(tmp, nf_bridge, sizeof(struct nf_bridge_info));
-			atomic_set(&tmp->use, 1);
-			nf_bridge_put(nf_bridge);
-		}
+		nf_bridge_put(nf_bridge);
 		nf_bridge = tmp;
 	}
 	return nf_bridge;
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