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authorJesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>2012-02-06 11:28:21 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-02-07 13:13:33 -0500
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bnx2x: Fix mem leak in bnx2x_tpa_stop() if build_skb() fails.
We allocate memory for 'new_data' with kmalloc(). If we get the memory we then try to build_skb() and if that should fail (which it can) we do not enter 'if (likely(skb)) {' and actually use 'new_data' but instead fall through to the 'drop:' label and end up returning from the function without ever assigning 'new'data' to anything or freeing it. That leaks the memory allocated to 'new_data'. This patch fixes the memory leak by doing a kfree(new_data) in the case where build_skb() fails (or where allocation of 'new_data' itself fails, but in taht case it's just a harmless kfree(NULL)). Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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