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

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Message-Id: <20201002.152210.882739609746128600.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:22:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuba@...nel.org, johannes.berg@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: fix policy dump leak

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Fri,  2 Oct 2020 09:46:04 +0200

> 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>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.

> Jakub, this conflicts with your series now, of course. Not sure how
> we want to handle that?

I applied this to both net and net-next in order to facilitate Jakub's
work.