Re: [PATCH] net: sched: sch_taprio: fix memleak in error path for sched list parse

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Aug 06 2019 - 14:41:56 EST


From: Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 13:04:25 +0300

> Based on net/master

I wonder about that because:

> --- a/net/sched/sch_taprio.c
> +++ b/net/sched/sch_taprio.c
> @@ -1451,7 +1451,8 @@ static int taprio_change(struct Qdisc *sch, struct nlattr *opt,
> spin_unlock_bh(qdisc_lock(sch));
>
> free_sched:
> - kfree(new_admin);
> + if (new_admin)
> + call_rcu(&new_admin->rcu, taprio_free_sched_cb);
>
> return err;

In my tree the context around line 1451 is:

nla_nest_end(skb, sched_nest);

done:
rcu_read_unlock();

return nla_nest_end(skb, nest);


which is part of function taprio_dump().

Please respin this properly against current 'net' sources.