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| author | Eric Dumazet | 2013-06-24 15:26:00 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller | 2013-06-26 01:07:44 +0200 |
| commit | bd8a7036c06cf15779b31a5397d4afcb12be81ea (patch) | |
| tree | d78794e12fb4ac0005f019e6a51e797230d38970 /include/linux/skbuff.h | |
| parent | Merge branch 'for-davem' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lin... (diff) | |
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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 'include/linux/skbuff.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/skbuff.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h index 9c676eae3968..dec1748cd002 100644 --- a/include/linux/skbuff.h +++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h @@ -627,6 +627,7 @@ static inline struct rtable *skb_rtable(const struct sk_buff *skb) } extern void kfree_skb(struct sk_buff *skb); +extern void kfree_skb_list(struct sk_buff *segs); extern void skb_tx_error(struct sk_buff *skb); extern void consume_skb(struct sk_buff *skb); extern void __kfree_skb(struct sk_buff *skb); |