batman-adv: fix potential orig_node reference leak
authorSimon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Sat, 8 Feb 2014 15:45:06 +0000 (16:45 +0100)
committerAntonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:17:01 +0000 (17:17 +0100)
Since batadv_orig_node_new() sets the refcount to two, assuming that
the calling function will use a reference for putting the orig_node into
a hash or similar, both references must be freed if initialization of
the orig_node fails. Otherwise that object may be leaked in that error
case.

Reported-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c

index 094ae7ca50a004d9be9e91168e2cf100efb900b8..42cbc0a689412008b8b0a671cce65d189a97b6e8 100644 (file)
@@ -254,6 +254,8 @@ batadv_iv_ogm_orig_get(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, const uint8_t *addr)
 free_bcast_own:
        kfree(orig_node->bat_iv.bcast_own);
 free_orig_node:
+       /* free twice, as batadv_orig_node_new sets refcount to 2 */
+       batadv_orig_node_free_ref(orig_node);
        batadv_orig_node_free_ref(orig_node);
 
        return NULL;