From 0324b5a450f8a58304e93c5d886add24ca3527bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 17:16:52 -0700
Subject: 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>
---
 kernel/taskstats.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

(limited to 'kernel/taskstats.c')

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;
 	}
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