[PATCH 4.8 32/45] ipv4: Fix memory leak in exception case for splitting tries

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Dec 09 2016 - 11:22:47 EST


4.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxx>


[ Upstream commit 3114cdfe66c156345b0ae34e2990472f277e0c1b ]

Fix a small memory leak that can occur where we leak a fib_alias in the
event of us not being able to insert it into the local table.

Fixes: 0ddcf43d5d4a0 ("ipv4: FIB Local/MAIN table collapse")
Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/fib_trie.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
@@ -1713,8 +1713,10 @@ struct fib_table *fib_trie_unmerge(struc
local_l = fib_find_node(lt, &local_tp, l->key);

if (fib_insert_alias(lt, local_tp, local_l, new_fa,
- NULL, l->key))
+ NULL, l->key)) {
+ kmem_cache_free(fn_alias_kmem, new_fa);
goto out;
+ }
}

/* stop loop if key wrapped back to 0 */