netdev - Re: [PATCH] sctp: do not leak chunks that are sent to unconfirmed paths

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Date:	Sun, 20 Mar 2016 16:31:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	marcelo.leitner@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, nhorman@...driver.com, vyasevich@...il.com,
	linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: do not leak chunks that are sent to unconfirmed
 paths

From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 18:39:19 -0300

> Currently, if a chunk is scheduled to be sent through a transport that
> is currently unconfirmed, it will be leaked as it is dequeued from outq
> and is not re-queued nor freed.
> 
> As I'm not aware of any situation that may lead to this situation, I'm
> fixing this by freeing the chunk and also logging a trace so that we can
> fix the other bug if it ever happens.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>

Applied.