[PATCH] ieee802154: Don't leak memory in ieee802154_nl_fill_phy

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Sun Jun 12 2011 - 10:36:50 EST


In net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c::ieee802154_nl_fill_phy() I see two small
issues.
1) If the allocation of 'buf' fails we may just as well return -EMSGSIZE
directly rather than jumping to 'out:' and do a pointless kfree(0).
2) We do not free 'buf' unless we jump to one of the error labels and this
leaks memory.
This patch should address both.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
nl-phy.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

I have no way to properly test this patch, so it's compile tested only.

diff --git a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
index ed0eab3..02548b2 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ static int ieee802154_nl_fill_phy(struct sk_buff *msg, u32 pid,
pr_debug("%s\n", __func__);

if (!buf)
- goto out;
+ return -EMSGSIZE;

hdr = genlmsg_put(msg, 0, seq, &nl802154_family, flags,
IEEE802154_LIST_PHY);
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ static int ieee802154_nl_fill_phy(struct sk_buff *msg, u32 pid,
pages * sizeof(uint32_t), buf);

mutex_unlock(&phy->pib_lock);
+ kfree(buf);
return genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);

nla_put_failure:


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