This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netfilter: nfnl_cthelper: Fix memory leak
to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
netfilter-nfnl_cthelper-fix-memory-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Thu Dec 21 10:55:04 CET 2017
From: Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:07:10 +0800
Subject: netfilter: nfnl_cthelper: Fix memory leak
From: Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit f83bf8da1135ca635aac8f062cad3f001fcf3a26 ]
We have memory leaks of nf_conntrack_helper & expect_policy.
Signed-off-by: Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c | 12 +++++++++---
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ nfnl_cthelper_create(const struct nlattr
ret = nfnl_cthelper_parse_expect_policy(helper, tb[NFCTH_POLICY]);
if (ret < 0)
- goto err;
+ goto err1;
strncpy(helper->name, nla_data(tb[NFCTH_NAME]), NF_CT_HELPER_NAME_LEN);
helper->data_len = ntohl(nla_get_be32(tb[NFCTH_PRIV_DATA_LEN]));
@@ -247,10 +247,12 @@ nfnl_cthelper_create(const struct nlattr
ret = nf_conntrack_helper_register(helper);
if (ret < 0)
- goto err;
+ goto err2;
return 0;
-err:
+err2:
+ kfree(helper->expect_policy);
+err1:
kfree(helper);
return ret;
}
@@ -696,6 +698,8 @@ nfnl_cthelper_del(struct sock *nfnl, str
found = true;
nf_conntrack_helper_unregister(cur);
+ kfree(cur->expect_policy);
+ kfree(cur);
}
}
/* Make sure we return success if we flush and there is no helpers */
@@ -759,6 +763,8 @@ static void __exit nfnl_cthelper_exit(vo
continue;
nf_conntrack_helper_unregister(cur);
+ kfree(cur->expect_policy);
+ kfree(cur);
}
}
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jeffy.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/netfilter-nfnl_cthelper-fix-memory-leak.patch