netdev - Re: [Patch net] cls_cgroup: fix memory leak in cls_cgroup

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Date:	Mon, 6 Jan 2014 15:23:09 -0800
From:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch net] cls_cgroup: fix memory leak in cls_cgroup_change()

On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 6:02 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
> Date: Fri,  3 Jan 2014 11:13:19 -0800
>
>> Fix it by moving allocation to ->init().
>>
>> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
>> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
>> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
>
> I don't understand how the memory leak can happen, please explain
> it in your commit message.
>

The leak happens when ->change() fails after the allocation
inside  cls_cgroup_change(), its caller only does cleanup
when itself creates one. So, the callee should do cleanup
on error path by itself. But I may miss something.

Since it is not urgent at all, I will explain this in changelog
and resend it for net-next.

> Also:
>
>>  {
>> +     struct cls_cgroup_head *head;
>> +     head = kzalloc(sizeof(*head), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> Please add an empty line between local variable declarations
> and code.
>

OK.
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