netdev - [PATCH] openvswitch: fix a memory leak

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Date:	Tue,  2 Sep 2014 20:52:28 +0800
From:	roy.qing.li@...il.com
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dev@...nvswitch.org, pshelar@...ira.com
Subject: [PATCH] openvswitch: fix a memory leak

From: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@...il.com>

The user_skb maybe be leaked if the operation on it failed and codes
skipped into the label "out:" without calling genlmsg_unicast.

Cc: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com> 
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@...il.com>
---
 net/openvswitch/datapath.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
index 7228ec3..35d866f 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ static int queue_userspace_packet(struct datapath *dp, struct sk_buff *skb,
 {
 	struct ovs_header *upcall;
 	struct sk_buff *nskb = NULL;
-	struct sk_buff *user_skb; /* to be queued to userspace */
+	struct sk_buff *user_skb = NULL; /* to be queued to userspace */
 	struct nlattr *nla;
 	struct genl_info info = {
 		.dst_sk = ovs_dp_get_net(dp)->genl_sock,
@@ -494,9 +494,11 @@ static int queue_userspace_packet(struct datapath *dp, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	((struct nlmsghdr *) user_skb->data)->nlmsg_len = user_skb->len;
 
 	err = genlmsg_unicast(ovs_dp_get_net(dp), user_skb, upcall_info->portid);
+	user_skb = NULL;
 out:
 	if (err)
 		skb_tx_error(skb);
+	kfree_skb(user_skb);
 	kfree_skb(nskb);
 	return err;
 }
-- 
1.7.10.4

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