From: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>
Currently, if calipso_genopt fails then the error exit path
does not free the ipv6_opt_hdr new causing a memory leak. Fix
this by kfree'ing new on the error exit path.
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>
---
net/ipv6/calipso.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/calipso.c b/net/ipv6/calipso.c
index c53b92c..37ac9de 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/calipso.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/calipso.c
@@ -952,8 +952,10 @@ calipso_opt_insert(struct ipv6_opt_hdr *hop,
memcpy(new, hop, start);
ret_val = calipso_genopt((unsigned char *)new, start, buf_len, doi_def,
secattr);
- if (ret_val < 0)
+ if (ret_val < 0) {
+ kfree(new);
return ERR_PTR(ret_val);
+ }
buf_len = start + ret_val;
/* At this point buf_len aligns to 4n, so (buf_len & 4) pads to 8n */
--
2.8.1
