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[PATCH] net: fix memory leak on oom with zerocopy

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: 2012-09-16 08:42:54
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

If orphan flags fails, we don't free the skb
on receive, which leaks the skb memory.

Return value was also wrong: netif_receive_skb
is supposed to return NET_RX_DROP, not ENOMEM.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
---

Fixes a memory leak so 3.6 material?

 net/core/dev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 8398836..899f827 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -3321,7 +3321,7 @@ ncls:
 
 	if (pt_prev) {
 		if (unlikely(skb_orphan_frags(skb, GFP_ATOMIC)))
-			ret = -ENOMEM;
+			goto drop;
 		else
 			ret = pt_prev->func(skb, skb->dev, pt_prev, orig_dev);
 	} else {
-- 
MST
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