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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2013-06-24 06:26:00 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-06-25 16:07:44 -0700
commitbd8a7036c06cf15779b31a5397d4afcb12be81ea (patch)
treed78794e12fb4ac0005f019e6a51e797230d38970 /net
parent2b7a5db060f5e7d7f79bc45f818e08b8f244a3b8 (diff)
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')
-rw-r--r--net/core/skbuff.c20
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/gre.c2
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index cfd777bd6bd..1c1738cc453 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
diff --git a/net/ipv4/gre.c b/net/ipv4/gre.c
index b2e805af9b8..7856d1651d0 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/gre.c
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *gre_gso_segment(struct sk_buff *skb,
err = __skb_linearize(skb);
if (err) {
- kfree_skb(segs);
+ kfree_skb_list(segs);
segs = ERR_PTR(err);
goto out;
}