netdev - [PATCH net] dccp: fix memory leak during tear-down of unsuccessful connection request

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Date:   Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:01:30 +0100
From:   Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] dccp: fix memory leak during tear-down of unsuccessful connection request

This patch fixes a memory leak, which happens if the connection request
is not fulfilled between parsing the DCCP options and handling the SYN
(because e.g. the backlog is full), because we forgot to free the
list of ack vectors.

Reported-by: Jianwen Ji <jiji@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
---
 net/dccp/ccids/ccid2.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/dccp/ccids/ccid2.c b/net/dccp/ccids/ccid2.c
index f053198e730c48..5e3a7302f7747e 100644
--- a/net/dccp/ccids/ccid2.c
+++ b/net/dccp/ccids/ccid2.c
@@ -749,6 +749,7 @@ static void ccid2_hc_tx_exit(struct sock *sk)
 	for (i = 0; i < hc->tx_seqbufc; i++)
 		kfree(hc->tx_seqbuf[i]);
 	hc->tx_seqbufc = 0;
+	dccp_ackvec_parsed_cleanup(&hc->tx_av_chunks);
 }
 
 static void ccid2_hc_rx_packet_recv(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
-- 
2.9.3