From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit f87d8ad9233f115db92c6c087d58403b0009ed36 ]
There is a memory leak in case genlmsg_put fails.
Fix this by freeing *args* before return.
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1476406 ("Resource leak")
Fixes: 46273cf7e009 ("tipc: fix a missing check of genlmsg_put")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/tipc/netlink_compat.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
index fab0384d2b4b3..b4860084a8f56 100644
--- a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
+++ b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
@@ -983,8 +983,10 @@ static int tipc_nl_compat_publ_dump(struct tipc_nl_compat_msg *msg, u32 sock)
hdr = genlmsg_put(args, 0, 0, &tipc_genl_family, NLM_F_MULTI,
TIPC_NL_PUBL_GET);
- if (!hdr)
+ if (!hdr) {
+ kfree_skb(args);
return -EMSGSIZE;
+ }
nest = nla_nest_start(args, TIPC_NLA_SOCK);
if (!nest) {
--
2.20.1
