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authorJesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>2012-02-06 11:28:21 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-02-07 13:13:33 -0500
commit3f61cd879c2f112c468e8849949b6fc88c739679 (patch)
tree85bbd91351b97c20623dc65a0b5afe64720ae090
parentCONFIG_TR/CONFIG_LLC: work around the problem with select (diff)
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bnx2x: Fix mem leak in bnx2x_tpa_stop() if build_skb() fails.
We allocate memory for 'new_data' with kmalloc(). If we get the memory we then try to build_skb() and if that should fail (which it can) we do not enter 'if (likely(skb)) {' and actually use 'new_data' but instead fall through to the 'drop:' label and end up returning from the function without ever assigning 'new'data' to anything or freeing it. That leaks the memory allocated to 'new_data'. This patch fixes the memory leak by doing a kfree(new_data) in the case where build_skb() fails (or where allocation of 'new_data' itself fails, but in taht case it's just a harmless kfree(NULL)). Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
index 03f3935fd8c2..7aee46983be4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
@@ -523,7 +523,6 @@ static void bnx2x_tpa_stop(struct bnx2x *bp, struct bnx2x_fastpath *fp,
skb = build_skb(data);
if (likely(skb)) {
-
#ifdef BNX2X_STOP_ON_ERROR
if (pad + len > fp->rx_buf_size) {
BNX2X_ERR("skb_put is about to fail... "
@@ -557,7 +556,7 @@ static void bnx2x_tpa_stop(struct bnx2x *bp, struct bnx2x_fastpath *fp,
return;
}
-
+ kfree(new_data);
drop:
/* drop the packet and keep the buffer in the bin */
DP(NETIF_MSG_RX_STATUS,