Commit f937f1f4 authored Oct 15, 2007 by Jesper Juhl Committed by David S. Miller Oct 15, 2007

[NETLINK]: Don't leak 'listeners' in netlink_kernel_create()



The Coverity checker spotted that we'll leak the storage allocated
to 'listeners' in netlink_kernel_create() when the
  if (!nl_table[unit].registered)
check is false.

This patch avoids the leak.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 1dff92e0

net/netlink/af_netlink.c

+2 −0

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		@@ -1378,6 +1378,8 @@ netlink_kernel_create(struct net *net, int unit, unsigned int groups,
		nl_table[unit].cb_mutex = cb_mutex;
		nl_table[unit].module = module;
		nl_table[unit].registered = 1;
		} else {
		kfree(listeners);
		}
		netlink_table_ungrab();