Commit d46a3d0d authored by Oleg Nesterov's avatar Oleg Nesterov Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] taskstats: fix sk_buff leak

'return genlmsg_cancel()' in taskstats_user_cmd/taskstats_exit_send
potentially leaks a skb.  Unless we pass 'rep_skb' to the netlink layer
we own sk_buff.  This means we should always do kfree_skb() on failure.

[ Thomas acked and pointed out missing return value in original version ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: default avatarThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 5211e6e6
......@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ static int taskstats_user_cmd(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
return send_reply(rep_skb, info->snd_pid);
nla_put_failure:
return genlmsg_cancel(rep_skb, reply);
rc = genlmsg_cancel(rep_skb, reply);
err:
nlmsg_free(rep_skb);
return rc;
......@@ -507,7 +507,6 @@ void taskstats_exit_send(struct task_struct *tsk, struct taskstats *tidstats,
nla_put_failure:
genlmsg_cancel(rep_skb, reply);
goto ret;
err_skb:
nlmsg_free(rep_skb);
ret:
......
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