netdev - Re: [PATCH] netlink: fix policy dump leak

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Message-ID: <20201002082910.6951a5db@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Fri, 2 Oct 2020 08:29:10 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: fix policy dump leak

On Fri,  2 Oct 2020 09:46:04 +0200 Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
> 
> If userspace doesn't complete the policy dump, we leak the
> allocated state. Fix this.
> 
> Fixes: d07dcf9aadd6 ("netlink: add infrastructure to expose policies to userspace")
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>

Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>

FWIW make sure to mark the patches with net and net-next in the tag. 
The more automation we have, the more it matters.