kmemleak report a memory leak as follows: unreferenced object 0xffff8880059c6a00 (size 64): comm "ip", pid 23696, jiffies 4296590183 (age 1755.384s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 20 01 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ............... 1c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<00000000aa4e7a87>] ip6addrlbl_add+0x90/0xbb0 [<0000000070b8d7f1>] ip6addrlbl_net_init+0x109/0x170 [<000000006a9ca9d4>] ops_init+0xa8/0x3c0 [<000000002da57bf2>] setup_net+0x2de/0x7e0 [<000000004e52d573>] copy_net_ns+0x27d/0x530 [<00000000b07ae2b4>] create_new_namespaces+0x382/0xa30 [<000000003b76d36f>] unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0xa1/0x1d0 [<0000000030653721>] ksys_unshare+0x3a4/0x780 [<0000000007e82e40>] __x64_sys_unshare+0x2d/0x40 [<0000000031a10c08>] do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40 [<0000000099df30e7>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
We should free all rules when we catch an error in ip6addrlbl_net_init(). otherwise a memory leak will occur. Fixes: 2a8cc6c89039 ("[IPV6] ADDRCONF: Support RFC3484 configurable address selection policy table.") Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hul...@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Wang Hai <wangha...@huawei.com> --- net/ipv6/addrlabel.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrlabel.c b/net/ipv6/addrlabel.c index 642fc6ac13d2..637e323a0224 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/addrlabel.c +++ b/net/ipv6/addrlabel.c @@ -306,6 +306,8 @@ static int ip6addrlbl_del(struct net *net, /* add default label */ static int __net_init ip6addrlbl_net_init(struct net *net) { + struct ip6addrlbl_entry *p = NULL; + struct hlist_node *n; int err = 0; int i; @@ -320,9 +322,17 @@ static int __net_init ip6addrlbl_net_init(struct net *net) ip6addrlbl_init_table[i].prefixlen, 0, ip6addrlbl_init_table[i].label, 0); - /* XXX: should we free all rules when we catch an error? */ - if (ret && (!err || err != -ENOMEM)) + if (ret && (!err || err != -ENOMEM)) { err = ret; + goto err_ip6addrlbl_add; + } + } + return err; + +err_ip6addrlbl_add: + hlist_for_each_entry_safe(p, n, &net->ipv6.ip6addrlbl_table.head, list) { + hlist_del_rcu(&p->list); + kfree_rcu(p, rcu); } return err; } -- 2.17.1