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tipc: eliminate potential memory leak 

In the function tipc_sk_mcast_rcv() we call refcount_dec(&skb->users)
on received sk_buffers. Since the reference counter might hit zero at
this point, we have a potential memory leak.

We fix this by replacing refcount_dec() with kfree_skb().

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jon Maloy 2017-12-11 19:11:55 +01:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 83593010d3
commit c545a945d0
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@ -1140,7 +1140,7 @@ void tipc_sk_mcast_rcv(struct net *net, struct sk_buff_head *arrvq,
__skb_dequeue(arrvq);
__skb_queue_tail(inputq, skb);
}
refcount_dec(&skb->users);
kfree_skb(skb);
spin_unlock_bh(&inputq->lock);
continue;
}