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There are two kinds of memory leaks in genl_family_rcv_msg_dumpit():
1. Before we call ops->start(), whenever an error happens, we forget
to free the memory allocated in genl_family_rcv_msg_dumpit().
2. When ops->start() fails, the 'info' has been already installed on
the per socket control block, so we should not free it here. More
importantly, nlk->cb_running is still false at this point, so
netlink_sock_destruct() cannot free it either.
The first kind of memory leaks is easier to resolve, but the second
one requires some deeper thoughts.
After reviewing how netfilter handles this, the most elegant solution
I find is just to use a similar way to allocate the memory, that is,
moving memory allocations from caller into ops->start(). With this,
we can solve both kinds of memory leaks: for 1), no memory allocation
happens before ops->start(); for 2), ops->start() handles its own
failures and 'info' is installed to the socket control block only
when success. The only ugliness here is we have to pass all local
variables on stack via a struct, but this is not hard to understand.
Alternatively, we can introduce a ops->free() to solve this too,
but it is overkill as only genetlink has this problem so far.
Fixes:
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| certs | ||
| crypto | ||
| Documentation | ||
| drivers | ||
| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| LICENSES | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .clang-format | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.