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| author | Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> | 2013-06-24 06:26:00 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-06-25 16:07:44 -0700 |
| commit | bd8a7036c06cf15779b31a5397d4afcb12be81ea (patch) | |
| tree | d78794e12fb4ac0005f019e6a51e797230d38970 /net/core | |
| parent | 2b7a5db060f5e7d7f79bc45f818e08b8f244a3b8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-bd8a7036c06cf15779b31a5397d4afcb12be81ea.tar.bz2 | |
gre: fix a possible skb leak
commit 68c331631143 ("v4 GRE: Add TCP segmentation offload for GRE")
added a possible skb leak, because it frees only the head of segment
list, in case a skb_linearize() call fails.
This patch adds a kfree_skb_list() helper to fix the bug.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/skbuff.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c index cfd777bd6bd0..1c1738cc4538 100644 --- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -483,15 +483,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_add_rx_frag); static void skb_drop_list(struct sk_buff **listp) { - struct sk_buff *list = *listp; - + kfree_skb_list(*listp); *listp = NULL; - - do { - struct sk_buff *this = list; - list = list->next; - kfree_skb(this); - } while (list); } static inline void skb_drop_fraglist(struct sk_buff *skb) @@ -651,6 +644,17 @@ void kfree_skb(struct sk_buff *skb) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree_skb); +void kfree_skb_list(struct sk_buff *segs) +{ + while (segs) { + struct sk_buff *next = segs->next; + + kfree_skb(segs); + segs = next; + } +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree_skb_list); + /** * skb_tx_error - report an sk_buff xmit error * @skb: buffer that triggered an error |