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| author | Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> | 2012-10-05 02:16:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-10-05 20:05:31 +0200 |
| commit | 0324b5a450f8a58304e93c5d886add24ca3527bc (patch) | |
| tree | f3e77339d9964f550485e9d9b40897ba1b95b33f /kernel/taskstats.c | |
| parent | aoe: update aoe-internal version number to 50 (diff) | |
| download | linux-0324b5a450f8a58304e93c5d886add24ca3527bc.tar.xz linux-0324b5a450f8a58304e93c5d886add24ca3527bc.zip | |
taskstats: cgroupstats_user_cmd() may leak on error
If prepare_reply() succeeds we have allocated memory for 'rep_skb'. If
nla_reserve() then subsequently fails and returns NULL we fail to release
the memory we allocated, thus causing a leak.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/taskstats.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/taskstats.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/taskstats.c b/kernel/taskstats.c index 610f0838d555..145bb4d3bd4d 100644 --- a/kernel/taskstats.c +++ b/kernel/taskstats.c @@ -445,6 +445,7 @@ static int cgroupstats_user_cmd(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) na = nla_reserve(rep_skb, CGROUPSTATS_TYPE_CGROUP_STATS, sizeof(struct cgroupstats)); if (na == NULL) { + nlmsg_free(rep_skb); rc = -EMSGSIZE; goto err; } |