Coverity found what looks like a real leak in net/dccp/ipv6.c::dccp_v6_do_rcv()
We may leave via the return inside "if (sk->sk_state == DCCP_OPEN) {"
but at that point we may have allocated opt_skb, but we never free it
in that path before the return.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
---
net/dccp/ipv6.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- linux-2.6.18-git10-orig/net/dccp/ipv6.c 2006-09-28 22:40:07.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.18-git10/net/dccp/ipv6.c 2006-09-29 02:35:15.000000000 +0200
@@ -997,6 +997,8 @@ static int dccp_v6_do_rcv(struct sock *s
if (sk->sk_state == DCCP_OPEN) { /* Fast path */
if (dccp_rcv_established(sk, skb, dccp_hdr(skb), skb->len))
goto reset;
+ if (opt_skb)
+ __kfree_skb(opt_skb);
return 0;
}
PS. Please keep me on Cc:
--
Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
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