From 4ee45ea05c8710c7ab8a5eb1a72700b874712746 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li RongQing Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 20:52:28 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] openvswitch: fix a memory leak The user_skb maybe be leaked if the operation on it failed and codes skipped into the label "out:" without calling genlmsg_unicast. Cc: Pravin Shelar Signed-off-by: Li RongQing Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c index 7228ec3faf19..35d866f036e7 100644 --- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c +++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c @@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ static int queue_userspace_packet(struct datapath *dp, struct sk_buff *skb, { struct ovs_header *upcall; struct sk_buff *nskb = NULL; - struct sk_buff *user_skb; /* to be queued to userspace */ + struct sk_buff *user_skb = NULL; /* to be queued to userspace */ struct nlattr *nla; struct genl_info info = { .dst_sk = ovs_dp_get_net(dp)->genl_sock, @@ -494,9 +494,11 @@ static int queue_userspace_packet(struct datapath *dp, struct sk_buff *skb, ((struct nlmsghdr *) user_skb->data)->nlmsg_len = user_skb->len; err = genlmsg_unicast(ovs_dp_get_net(dp), user_skb, upcall_info->portid); + user_skb = NULL; out: if (err) skb_tx_error(skb); + kfree_skb(user_skb); kfree_skb(nskb); return err; }