From 91c66c6893a3e2bb8a88a30cb76007d5d49d32c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jesper Juhl Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:38:49 +0200 Subject: netfilter: ip_queue: Fix small leak in ipq_build_packet_message() ipq_build_packet_message() in net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_queue.c and net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_queue.c contain a small potential mem leak as far as I can tell. We allocate memory for 'skb' with alloc_skb() annd then call nlh = NLMSG_PUT(skb, 0, 0, IPQM_PACKET, size - sizeof(*nlh)); NLMSG_PUT is a macro NLMSG_PUT(skb, pid, seq, type, len) \ NLMSG_NEW(skb, pid, seq, type, len, 0) that expands to NLMSG_NEW, which is also a macro which expands to: NLMSG_NEW(skb, pid, seq, type, len, flags) \ ({ if (unlikely(skb_tailroom(skb) < (int)NLMSG_SPACE(len))) \ goto nlmsg_failure; \ __nlmsg_put(skb, pid, seq, type, len, flags); }) If we take the true branch of the 'if' statement and 'goto nlmsg_failure', then we'll, at that point, return from ipq_build_packet_message() without having assigned 'skb' to anything and we'll leak the memory we allocated for it when it goes out of scope. Fix this by placing a 'kfree(skb)' at 'nlmsg_failure'. I admit that I do not know how likely this to actually happen or even if there's something that guarantees that it will never happen - I'm not that familiar with this code, but if that is so, I've not been able to spot it. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy --- net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_queue.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'net/ipv6') diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_queue.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_queue.c index 249394863284..87b243a25afa 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_queue.c +++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_queue.c @@ -218,6 +218,7 @@ ipq_build_packet_message(struct nf_queue_entry *entry, int *errp) return skb; nlmsg_failure: + kfree_skb(skb); *errp = -EINVAL; printk(KERN_ERR "ip6_queue: error creating packet message\n"); return NULL; -- cgit v1.2.3