ipvs: freeing uninitialized pointer on error

If state != IP_VS_STATE_BACKUP then tinfo->buf is uninitialized.  If
kthread_run() fails then it means we free random memory resulting in an
oops.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>

diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c
index effa10c9e4e325bc3d5538f2d94988c191d7ba56..44fd10c539ac42dfaa967974051bdfacb17099fb 100644 (file)
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c
@@ -1795,6 +1795,8 @@ int start_sync_thread(struct net *net, int state, char *mcast_ifn, __u8 syncid)
                                             GFP_KERNEL);
                        if (!tinfo->buf)
                                goto outtinfo;
+               } else {
+                       tinfo->buf = NULL;
                }
                tinfo->id = id;