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

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Message-ID: <a290d0b3c02065b019073840a4f3369e3acc1f2e.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Fri, 02 Oct 2020 17:30:27 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: fix policy dump leak

On Fri, 2020-10-02 at 08:29 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> 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>

Thanks.

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

Yeah, sorry. It occurred to me like 10 seconds after sending the patch,
and then of course I forgot _again_ when I sent the others ... I'm not
doing that (yet) on my trees, so not quite natural yet.

johannes