Re: [PATCH net] netlink: fix a memory leak on error path

[cgxu519]

On 3/22/19 7:03 PM, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> Hi, Chengguang,
>
> On 22.03.2019 13:58, Chengguang Xu wrote:
> > In genl_register_family(), when idr_alloc() fails,
> > we forget to free family->attrbuf.
> >
> > Note, some callers call genl_unregister_family() to clean up
> > on error path, it doesn't work because the family is inserted
> > to the global list in the nearly last step.
> >
> > Fixes: 2ae0f17df1c ("genetlink: use idr to track families").
> > Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@xxxxxxx>
> have you seen https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1059834/ ?

Sorry, I didn't notice that because I'm mainly working on linus-tree.
Please just ignore this patch.

Thanks.