netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tipc: fix a possible memory leak

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Date:	Sun, 27 Apr 2014 19:08:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ying.xue@...driver.com
Cc:	dan.carpenter@...cle.com, jon.maloy@...csson.com,
	Paul.Gortmaker@...driver.com, erik.hugne@...csson.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tipc: fix a possible memory leak

From: Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 10:44:15 +0800

> The commit a8b9b96e959f3c035af20b1bd2ba67b0b7269b19 ("tipc: fix race
> in disc create/delete") leads to the following static checker warning:
> 
> 	net/tipc/discover.c:352 tipc_disc_create()
> 		warn: possible memory leak of 'req'
> 
> The risk of memory leak really exists in practice. Especially when
> it's failed to allocate memory for "req->buf", tipc_disc_create()
> doesn't free its allocated memory, instead just directly returns
> with ENOMEM error code. In this situation, memory leak, of course,
> happens.
> 
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>

Applied, thanks.
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