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

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Message-Id: <20170313.220130.2294582280239947577.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 13 Mar 2017 22:01:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] dccp: fix memory leak during tear-down of
 unsuccessful connection request

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:01:30 +0100

> 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>

Applied and queued up for -stable.