From: Andreas Pape Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 08:01:42 +0000 (+0200) Subject: batman-adv: fix memory leak when dropping packet from other gateway X-Git-Tag: v4.12-rc6~32^2~6^2 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a1a745ef980a1b48299ead4ea7990e62c0516f6e;p=karo-tx-linux.git batman-adv: fix memory leak when dropping packet from other gateway The skb must be released in the receive handler since b91a2543b4c1 ("batman-adv: Consume skb in receive handlers"). Just returning NET_RX_DROP will no longer automatically free the memory. This results in memory leaks when unicast packets from other backbones must be dropped because they share a common backbone. Fixes: 9e794b6bf4a2 ("batman-adv: drop unicast packets from other backbone gw") Signed-off-by: Andreas Pape [sven@narfation.org: adjust commit message] Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich --- diff --git a/net/batman-adv/routing.c b/net/batman-adv/routing.c index e1ebe14ee2a6..ae9f4d37d34f 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/routing.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/routing.c @@ -987,7 +987,7 @@ int batadv_recv_unicast_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, batadv_dbg(BATADV_DBG_BLA, bat_priv, "recv_unicast_packet(): Dropped unicast pkt received from another backbone gw %pM.\n", orig_addr_gw); - return NET_RX_DROP; + goto free_skb; } }