netdev - Re: [patch] bonding: fix a memory leak in bond_arp_send

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Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:24:32 +0200
From:	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...il.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@...il.com>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] bonding: fix a memory leak in bond_arp_send_all()

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 03:21:21PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>This test is reversed so the memory is always leaked.  It's better style
>to remove the test anyway.
>
>Fixes: 3e403a77779f ('bonding: make it possible to have unlimited nested upper vlans')
>Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Indeed, dunno how I've missed that. And kfree() verifies for the NULL
situation.

Acked-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...il.com>

>
>diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>index 023ec36..f0f5eab 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>@@ -2287,8 +2287,7 @@ found:
> 		ip_rt_put(rt);
> 		bond_arp_send(slave->dev, ARPOP_REQUEST, targets[i],
> 			      addr, tags);
>-		if (!tags)
>-			kfree(tags);
>+		kfree(tags);
> 	}
> }
>
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