netdev - [net] net: fix double free issue of skbuff

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Date:	Mon, 29 Feb 2016 12:22:53 +0000
From:	Zhang Shengju <zhangshengju@...s.chinamobile.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [net] net: fix double free issue of skbuff

If skb_reorder_vlan_header() failed, skb is freed and NULL is returned.
Then at skb_vlan_untag(), it will free skbuff again which cause double
free.

This patch removes kfree_skb() call in function skb_reorder_vlan_header().

Signed-off-by: Zhang Shengju <zhangshengju@...s.chinamobile.com>
---
 net/core/skbuff.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 488566b..1312d4b 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -4350,7 +4350,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(skb_gso_transport_seglen);
 static struct sk_buff *skb_reorder_vlan_header(struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	if (skb_cow(skb, skb_headroom(skb)) < 0) {
-		kfree_skb(skb);
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
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1.8.3.1