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openvswitch: fix a memory leak
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The user_skb maybe be leaked if the operation on it failed and codes
skipped into the label "out:" without calling genlmsg_unicast.

Cc: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Li RongQing authored and David S. Miller committed Sep 2, 2014
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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion net/openvswitch/datapath.c
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Expand Up @@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ static int queue_userspace_packet(struct datapath *dp, struct sk_buff *skb,
{
struct ovs_header *upcall;
struct sk_buff *nskb = NULL;
struct sk_buff *user_skb; /* to be queued to userspace */
struct sk_buff *user_skb = NULL; /* to be queued to userspace */
struct nlattr *nla;
struct genl_info info = {
.dst_sk = ovs_dp_get_net(dp)->genl_sock,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -494,9 +494,11 @@ static int queue_userspace_packet(struct datapath *dp, struct sk_buff *skb,
((struct nlmsghdr *) user_skb->data)->nlmsg_len = user_skb->len;

err = genlmsg_unicast(ovs_dp_get_net(dp), user_skb, upcall_info->portid);
user_skb = NULL;
out:
if (err)
skb_tx_error(skb);
kfree_skb(user_skb);
kfree_skb(nskb);
return err;
}
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