netdev - [PATCH V2 iproute2-next] misc: fix memory leak in ifstat.c

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Message-Id: <20250719104212.34058-1-ant.v.moryakov@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2025 13:42:12 +0300
From: Anton Moryakov <ant.v.moryakov@...il.com>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Anton Moryakov <ant.v.moryakov@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH V2 iproute2-next] misc: fix memory leak in ifstat.c

A memory leak was detected by the static analyzer SVACE in the function
get_nlmsg_extended(). The issue occurred when parsing extended interface
statistics failed due to a missing nested attribute. In this case,
memory allocated for 'n->name' via strdup() was not freed before returning,
resulting in a leak.

The fix adds an explicit 'free(n->name)' call before freeing the containing
structure in the error path.

Reported-by: SVACE static analyzer
Signed-off-by: Anton Moryakov <ant.v.moryakov@...il.com>
---
 misc/ifstat.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/misc/ifstat.c b/misc/ifstat.c
index 4ce5ca8a..3de20c63 100644
--- a/misc/ifstat.c
+++ b/misc/ifstat.c
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ static int get_nlmsg_extended(struct nlmsghdr *m, void *arg)

 		attr = parse_rtattr_one_nested(sub_type, tb[filter_type]);
 		if (attr == NULL) {
+			free(n->name);
 			free(n);
 			return 0;
 		}
-- 
2.39.2