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authorTushar Gohad <tgohad@mvista.com>2011-07-07 15:38:52 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-07-08 08:58:42 -0700
commit8fcbc63701b01e913e6a13937f765fabf9c969c5 (patch)
treeeaed81a25f362299b29de4731ca02289043b8cc2 /net
parentf8d9605243280f1870dd2c6c37a735b925c15f3c (diff)
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XFRM: Fix memory leak in xfrm_state_update
Upon "ip xfrm state update ..", xfrm_add_sa() takes an extra reference on the user-supplied SA and forgets to drop the reference when xfrm_state_update() returns 0. This leads to a memory leak as the parameter SA is never freed. This change attempts to fix the leak by calling __xfrm_state_put() when xfrm_state_update() updates a valid SA (err = 0). The parameter SA is added to the gc list when the final reference is dropped by xfrm_add_sa() upon completion. Signed-off-by: Tushar Gohad <tgohad@mvista.com> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
index d70f85e..9414b9c 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
@@ -1345,6 +1345,8 @@ out:
xfrm_state_check_expire(x1);
err = 0;
+ x->km.state = XFRM_STATE_DEAD;
+ __xfrm_state_put(x);
}
spin_unlock_bh(&x1->lock);
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