netdev - [PATCH net 1/5] openvswitch: Fix memory leak.

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Message-Id: <1416015449-1548-1-git-send-email-pshelar@nicira.com>
Date:	Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:37:29 -0800
From:	Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 1/5] openvswitch: Fix memory leak.

Need to free memory in case of sample action error.

Introduced by commit 651887b0c22cffcfce7eb9c ("openvswitch: Sample
action without side effects").

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
---
 net/openvswitch/actions.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/actions.c b/net/openvswitch/actions.c
index 006886d..00e447a 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/actions.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/actions.c
@@ -722,8 +722,6 @@ static int do_execute_actions(struct datapath *dp, struct sk_buff *skb,

 		case OVS_ACTION_ATTR_SAMPLE:
 			err = sample(dp, skb, key, a);
-			if (unlikely(err)) /* skb already freed. */
-				return err;
 			break;
 		}

-- 
1.9.3

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