[PATCH 00/03] pktgen: Fix kernel_thread() fail leak.

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 Leak fix: free all the alocated resources if kernel_thread() call fails.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <[email protected]>

 net/core/pktgen.c |   11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c
index ee26c69..ccffcbb 100644
--- a/net/core/pktgen.c
+++ b/net/core/pktgen.c
@@ -2998,6 +2998,7 @@ static struct pktgen_thread *__init pktg
 
 static int __init pktgen_create_thread(const char *name, int cpu)
 {
+	int err;
 	struct pktgen_thread *t = NULL;
 	struct proc_dir_entry *pe;
 
@@ -3036,9 +3037,15 @@ static int __init pktgen_create_thread(c
 
 	t->removed = 0;
 
-	if (kernel_thread((void *)pktgen_thread_worker, (void *)t,
-			  CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | CLONE_SIGHAND) < 0)
+	err = kernel_thread((void *)pktgen_thread_worker, (void *)t,
+			  CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | CLONE_SIGHAND);
+	if (err < 0) {
 		printk("pktgen: kernel_thread() failed for cpu %d\n", t->cpu);
+		remove_proc_entry(t->name, pg_proc_dir);
+		list_del(&t->th_list);
+		kfree(t);
+		return err;
+	}
 
 	return 0;
 }


-- 
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
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