If hook registration fails, the hooks allocated via nft_netdev_hook_alloc need to be freed. We can't change the goto label to 'goto 5' -- while it does fix the memleak it does cause a warning splat from the netfilter core (the hooks were not registered). Fixes: 3f0465a9ef02 ("netfilter: nf_tables: dynamically allocate hooks per net_device in flowtables") Reported-by: syzbot+a2ff6fa45162a5ed4dd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index d1318bdf49ca..bb064aa4154b 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -6300,8 +6300,13 @@ static int nf_tables_newflowtable(struct net *net, struct sock *nlsk, goto err4; err = nft_register_flowtable_net_hooks(ctx.net, table, flowtable); - if (err < 0) + if (err < 0) { + list_for_each_entry_safe(hook, next, &flowtable->hook_list, list) { + list_del_rcu(&hook->list); + kfree_rcu(hook, rcu); + } goto err4; + } err = nft_trans_flowtable_add(&ctx, NFT_MSG_NEWFLOWTABLE, flowtable); if (err < 0) -- 2.24.1