Re: [PATCH] netfilter: don't xt_jumpstack_alloc twice inxt_register_table

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Mon May 31 2010 - 09:19:43 EST



On Monday 2010-05-31 13:51, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>On Monday 2010-05-31 13:06, Xiaotian Feng wrote:
>
>>In xt_register_table, xt_jumpstack_alloc is called first, later
>>xt_replace_table is used. But in xt_replace_table, xt_jumpstack_alloc
>>will be used again. Then the memory allocated by previous xt_jumpstack_alloc
>>will be leaked. We can simply remove the previous xt_jumpstack_alloc because
>>there aren't any users of newinfo between xt_jumpstack_alloc and
>>xt_replace_table.
>
>Indeed that seems to be so.

Acked-By: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx>

>
>>diff --git a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
>>index 445de70..47b1e79 100644
>>--- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
>>+++ b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
>>@@ -844,10 +844,6 @@ struct xt_table *xt_register_table(struct net *net,
>> struct xt_table_info *private;
>> struct xt_table *t, *table;
>>
>>- ret = xt_jumpstack_alloc(newinfo);
>>- if (ret < 0)
>>- return ERR_PTR(ret);
>>-
>> /* Don't add one object to multiple lists. */
>> table = kmemdup(input_table, sizeof(struct xt_table), GFP_KERNEL);
>> if (!table) {
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