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authorCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>2018-03-30 13:22:06 -0700
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2018-04-16 17:47:16 +0200
commit114aa35d06d4920c537b72f9fa935de5dd205260 (patch)
tree4c68a6511d73f69a6371280e9b1a2b0ac9907708 /net
parentcf43ae63c024971e6df94665e829c01c22202a19 (diff)
downloadlinux-114aa35d06d4920c537b72f9fa935de5dd205260.tar.bz2
netfilter: conntrack: silent a memory leak warning
The following memory leak is false postive: unreferenced object 0xffff8f37f156fb38 (size 128): comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294899665 (age 11.292s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk 00 00 00 00 30 00 20 00 48 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b ....0. .Hkkkkkkk backtrace: [<000000004fda266a>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x10d/0x141 [<000000007b0a7e3c>] __krealloc+0x45/0x62 [<00000000d08e0bfb>] nf_ct_ext_add+0xdc/0x133 [<0000000099b47fd8>] init_conntrack+0x1b1/0x392 [<0000000086dc36ec>] nf_conntrack_in+0x1ee/0x34b [<00000000940592de>] nf_hook_slow+0x36/0x95 [<00000000d1bd4da7>] nf_hook.constprop.43+0x1c3/0x1dd [<00000000c3673266>] __ip_local_out+0xae/0xb4 [<000000003e4192a6>] ip_local_out+0x17/0x33 [<00000000b64356de>] igmp_ifc_timer_expire+0x23e/0x26f [<000000006a8f3032>] call_timer_fn+0x14c/0x2a5 [<00000000650c1725>] __run_timers.part.34+0x150/0x182 [<0000000090e6946e>] run_timer_softirq+0x2a/0x4c [<000000004d1e7293>] __do_softirq+0x1d1/0x3c2 [<000000004643557d>] irq_exit+0x53/0xa2 [<0000000029ddee8f>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x22a/0x235 because __krealloc() is not supposed to release the old memory and it is released later via kfree_rcu(). Since this is the only external user of __krealloc(), just mark it as not leak here. Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c
index 9fe0ddc333fb..bd71a828ebde 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ void *nf_ct_ext_add(struct nf_conn *ct, enum nf_ct_ext_id id, gfp_t gfp)
rcu_read_unlock();
alloc = max(newlen, NF_CT_EXT_PREALLOC);
+ kmemleak_not_leak(old);
new = __krealloc(old, alloc, gfp);
if (!new)
return NULL;