openvswitch: fix a memory leak
The user_skb maybe be leaked if the operation on it failed and codes
skipped into the label "out:" without calling genlmsg_unicast.
Cc: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
index 7228ec3..35d866f 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@
{
struct ovs_header *upcall;
struct sk_buff *nskb = NULL;
- struct sk_buff *user_skb; /* to be queued to userspace */
+ struct sk_buff *user_skb = NULL; /* to be queued to userspace */
struct nlattr *nla;
struct genl_info info = {
.dst_sk = ovs_dp_get_net(dp)->genl_sock,
@@ -494,9 +494,11 @@
((struct nlmsghdr *) user_skb->data)->nlmsg_len = user_skb->len;
err = genlmsg_unicast(ovs_dp_get_net(dp), user_skb, upcall_info->portid);
+ user_skb = NULL;
out:
if (err)
skb_tx_error(skb);
+ kfree_skb(user_skb);
kfree_skb(nskb);
return err;
}