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

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Message-Id: 
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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 23:30:09 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: Anton Moryakov <ant.v.moryakov@...il.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 iproute2-next] misc: fix memory leak in ifstat.c

Hello:

This patch was applied to iproute2/iproute2-next.git (main)
by David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>:

On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 13:42:12 +0300 you wrote:
> 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.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [V2,iproute2-next] misc: fix memory leak in ifstat.c
    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2-next.git/commit/?id=0b09a1b053a2

You are awesome, thank you!
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