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Re: [PATCH][ICMP]: Dst entry leak in icmp_send host re-lookup code. [message #28660 is a reply to message #28653] Wed, 26 March 2008 07:46 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 11:32 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 06:40:00PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> > Commit 8b7817f3a959ed99d7443afc12f78a7e1fcc2063 ([IPSEC]: Add ICMP host
> > relookup support) introduced some dst leaks on error paths: the rt
> > pointer can be forgotten to be put. Fix it bu going to a proper label.
> > 
> > Found after net namespace's lo refused to unregister :) Many thanks to 
> > Den for valuable help during debugging.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
> 
> Thanks for catching this!
> 
> > diff --git a/net/ipv4/icmp.c b/net/ipv4/icmp.c
> > index ff9a8e6..db231cb 100644
> > --- a/net/ipv4/icmp.c
> > +++ b/net/ipv4/icmp.c
> > @@ -594,11 +594,11 @@ void icmp_send(struct sk_buff *skb_in, int type, int code, __be32 info)
> >  			rt = NULL;
> >  			break;
> >  		default:
> > -			goto out_unlock;
> > +			goto ende;
> >  		}
> 
> I'm not sure about this bit though because xfrm_lookup is meant
> to free the route on error.

This is not a problem, it assigns NULL in this case to a pointer.
 
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