From: Wang Hai <wanghai38@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit fa6882c63621821f73cc806f291208e1c6ea6187 ] kmemleak report a memory leak as follows: unreferenced object 0xffff88810a596800 (size 512): comm "ip", pid 21558, jiffies 4297568990 (age 112.120s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 .....N.......... ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 83 60 b0 ff ff ff ff ..........`..... backtrace: [<0000000022bbe21f>] tipc_topsrv_init_net+0x1f3/0xa70 [<00000000fe15ddf7>] ops_init+0xa8/0x3c0 [<00000000138af6f2>] setup_net+0x2de/0x7e0 [<000000008c6807a3>] copy_net_ns+0x27d/0x530 [<000000006b21adbd>] create_new_namespaces+0x382/0xa30 [<00000000bb169746>] unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0xa1/0x1d0 [<00000000fe2e42bc>] ksys_unshare+0x39c/0x780 [<0000000009ba3b19>] __x64_sys_unshare+0x2d/0x40 [<00000000614ad866>] do_syscall_64+0x56/0xa0 [<00000000a1b5ca3c>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 'srv' is malloced in tipc_topsrv_start() but not free before leaving from the error handling cases. We need to free it. Fixes: 5c45ab24ac77 ("tipc: make struct tipc_server private for server.c") Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wang Hai <wanghai38@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201109140913.47370-1-wanghai38@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/tipc/topsrv.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/tipc/topsrv.c +++ b/net/tipc/topsrv.c @@ -665,12 +665,18 @@ static int tipc_topsrv_start(struct net ret = tipc_topsrv_work_start(srv); if (ret < 0) - return ret; + goto err_start; ret = tipc_topsrv_create_listener(srv); if (ret < 0) - tipc_topsrv_work_stop(srv); + goto err_create; + return 0; + +err_create: + tipc_topsrv_work_stop(srv); +err_start: + kfree(srv); return ret; }