netdev - [PATCH] ieee802154: Don't leak memory in ieee802154_nl_fill

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Date:	Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:28:16 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-zigbee-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Sergey Lapin <slapin@...fans.org>,
	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>,
	Maxim Osipov <maxim.osipov@...mens.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ieee802154: Don't leak memory in ieee802154_nl_fill_phy

In net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c::ieee802154_nl_fill_phy() I see two small 
issues.
1) If the allocation of 'buf' fails we may just as well return -EMSGSIZE
   directly rather than jumping to 'out:' and do a pointless kfree(0).
2) We do not free 'buf' unless we jump to one of the error labels and this
   leaks memory.
This patch should address both.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
---
 nl-phy.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

  I have no way to properly test this patch, so it's compile tested only.

diff --git a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
index ed0eab3..02548b2 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ static int ieee802154_nl_fill_phy(struct sk_buff *msg, u32 pid,
 	pr_debug("%s\n", __func__);
 
 	if (!buf)
-		goto out;
+		return -EMSGSIZE;
 
 	hdr = genlmsg_put(msg, 0, seq, &nl802154_family, flags,
 		IEEE802154_LIST_PHY);
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ static int ieee802154_nl_fill_phy(struct sk_buff *msg, u32 pid,
 				pages * sizeof(uint32_t), buf);
 
 	mutex_unlock(&phy->pib_lock);
+	kfree(buf);
 	return genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
 
 nla_put_failure:


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