netdev - Re: [PATCH] genetlink: Fix a memory leak on error path

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Date:   Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:30:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     yuehaibing@...wei.com
Cc:     keescook@...omium.org, ktkhai@...tuozzo.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] genetlink: Fix a memory leak on error path

From: Yue Haibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:02:50 +0800

> From: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
> 
> In genl_register_family(), when idr_alloc() fails,
> we forget to free the memory we possibly allocate for
> family->attrbuf.
> 
> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@...wei.com>
> Fixes: 2ae0f17df1cd ("genetlink: use idr to track families")
> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.