netdev - [PATCH 08/10] batman-adv: free skb on TVLV parsing success

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Date:	Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:48:47 +0100
From:	Antonio Quartulli <antonio@...hcoding.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org,
	Antonio Quartulli <antonio@...n-mesh.com>,
	Marek Lindner <mareklindner@...mailbox.ch>
Subject: [PATCH 08/10] batman-adv: free skb on TVLV parsing success

From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@...n-mesh.com>

When the TVLV parsing routine succeed the skb is left
untouched thus leading to a memory leak.

Fix this by consuming the skb in case of success.

Introduced by ef26157747d42254453f6b3ac2bd8bd3c53339c3
("batman-adv: tvlv - basic infrastructure")

Reported-by: Russel Senior <russell@...sonaltelco.net>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@...n-mesh.com>
Tested-by: Russell Senior <russell@...sonaltelco.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@...mailbox.ch>
---
 net/batman-adv/routing.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/routing.c b/net/batman-adv/routing.c
index c26f073..a953d5b 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/routing.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/routing.c
@@ -918,6 +918,8 @@ int batadv_recv_unicast_tvlv(struct sk_buff *skb,
 
 	if (ret != NET_RX_SUCCESS)
 		ret = batadv_route_unicast_packet(skb, recv_if);
+	else
+		consume_skb(skb);
 
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
1.8.5.3

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