Re: [PATCH net] netlink: fix a memory leak on error path

[Kirill Tkhai]

On 25.03.2019 04:19, cgxu519 wrote:
> On 3/22/19 7:03 PM, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
>> Hi, Chengguang,
>>
>> On 22.03.2019 13:58, Chengguang Xu wrote:
>>> In genl_register_family(), when idr_alloc() fails,
>>> we forget to free family->attrbuf.
>>>
>>> Note, some callers call genl_unregister_family() to clean up
>>> on error path, it doesn't work because the family is inserted
>>> to the global list in the nearly last step.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 2ae0f17df1c ("genetlink: use idr to track families").
>>> Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@xxxxxxx>
>> have you seen https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1059834/ ?
> 
> Sorry, I didn't notice that because I'm mainly working on linus-tree.
> Please just ignore this patch.

Not a problem.

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Kirill