Re: [PATCH] tipc: fix memory leak in tipc_nl_compat_publ_dump

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Jan 07 2019 - 11:46:03 EST


From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2019 10:52:23 -0600

> There is a memory leak in case genlmsg_put fails.
>
> Fix this by freeing *args* before return.
>
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1476406 ("Resource leak")
> Fixes: 46273cf7e009 ("tipc: fix a missing check of genlmsg_put")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thank you.