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| author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> | 2006-10-29 14:45:58 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-10-29 21:07:37 +0100 |
| commit | d46a3d0d07ba539aea5b0e1ad30e568f0cb03576 (patch) | |
| tree | 2db10dd06537a27bbdd16080c56db33f884812bb /kernel/Kconfig.preempt | |
| parent | [PATCH] Fix GFP_HIGHMEM slab panic (diff) | |
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[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: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Thomas 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: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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