netdev - Re: [PATCH] sctp: fix memory leak in sctp_datamsg_from

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Date:	Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:11:48 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tt.rantala@...il.com
Cc:	linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	nhorman@...driver.com, vyasevich@...il.com, sri@...ibm.com,
	davej@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: fix memory leak in sctp_datamsg_from_user() when
 copy from user space fails

From: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:01:46 +0200

> Trinity (the syscall fuzzer) discovered a memory leak in SCTP,
> reproducible e.g. with the sendto() syscall by passing invalid
> user space pointer in the second argument:
...
> As far as I can tell, the leak has been around since ~2003.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@...il.com>

Applied.
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