From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> syzbot found a memory leak in nf_tables_addchain() because the chain object is not free'd correctly on error. Fixes: d0e2c7de92c7 ("netfilter: nf_tables: add NFT_CHAIN_BINDING") Reported-by: syzbot+c99868fde67014f7e9f5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index d878e34e3354..fd814e514f94 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -2018,8 +2018,10 @@ static int nf_tables_addchain(struct nft_ctx *ctx, u8 family, u8 genmask, if (nla[NFTA_CHAIN_NAME]) { chain->name = nla_strdup(nla[NFTA_CHAIN_NAME], GFP_KERNEL); } else { - if (!(flags & NFT_CHAIN_BINDING)) - return -EINVAL; + if (!(flags & NFT_CHAIN_BINDING)) { + err = -EINVAL; + goto err1; + } snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "__chain%llu", ++chain_id); chain->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL); -- 2.20.1