Re: [PATCH net] ipv4: fix memory leaks in ip_cmsg_send() callers

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 6:23 AM, Eric Dumazet [off-list ref] wrote:

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

Dmitry reported memory leaks of IP options allocated in
ip_cmsg_send() when/if this function returns an error.

Callers are responsible for the freeing.

Right, because there is a loop in ip_cmsg_send(), so the callers
are easier to free it than the callee.

The other thing is we perhaps have another leak in the following code:

        if (ipc.opt && ipc.opt->opt.srr) {
                if (!daddr)
                        return -EINVAL;
                faddr = ipc.opt->opt.faddr;
        }

since ipc.opt could be allocated on heap... We need something like:

@@ -770,8 +770,11 @@ static int ping_v4_sendmsg(struct sock *sk,

struct msghdr *msg, size_t len)
        ipc.addr = faddr = daddr;

        if (ipc.opt && ipc.opt->opt.srr) {
-               if (!daddr)
+               if (!daddr) {
+                       if (free)
+                               kfree(ipc.opt);
                        return -EINVAL;
+               }
                faddr = ipc.opt->opt.faddr;
        }
        tos = get_rttos(&ipc, inet);