The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 155e4e12b9f49c2dc817bb4c44e9416c46833c3d
Author: Jesper Juhl <jj(a)chaosbits.net>
Date: Tue Aug 7 08:32:34 2012 +0000
batman-adv: Fix mem leak in the batadv_tt_local_event() function
Memory is allocated for 'tt_change_node' with kmalloc().
'tt_change_node' may go out of scope really being used for anything
(except have a few members initialized) if we hit the 'del:' label.
This patch makes sure we free the memory in that case.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj(a)chaosbits.net>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex(a)autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem(a)davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c
index a438f4b..99dd8f7 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c
@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ static void batadv_tt_local_event(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
del:
list_del(&entry->list);
kfree(entry);
+ kfree(tt_change_node);
event_removed = true;
goto unlock;
}
--
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