6.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Tao Chen <chentao.kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit e69761483361f3df455bc493c99af0ef1744a14f ] Fix coverity issue 'Resource leak'. We should clean the skb resource if nlmsg_put/append failed. Fixes: 738136a0e375 ("netlink: split up copies in the ack construction") Signed-off-by: Tao Chen <chentao.kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/bff442d62c87de6299817fe1897cc5a5694ba9cc.1667638204.git.chentao.kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Stable-dep-of: d0f95894fda7 ("netlink: annotate data-races around sk->sk_err") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c index 4ddb2ed7706ad..845ac56a3ac2e 100644 --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c @@ -2444,7 +2444,7 @@ void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err, skb = nlmsg_new(payload + tlvlen, GFP_KERNEL); if (!skb) - goto err_bad_put; + goto err_skb; rep = nlmsg_put(skb, NETLINK_CB(in_skb).portid, nlh->nlmsg_seq, NLMSG_ERROR, sizeof(*errmsg), flags); @@ -2472,6 +2472,8 @@ void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err, return; err_bad_put: + nlmsg_free(skb); +err_skb: NETLINK_CB(in_skb).sk->sk_err = ENOBUFS; sk_error_report(NETLINK_CB(in_skb).sk); } -- 2.40.1