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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] fix networking memory leak in current -bk
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 00:36:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031004003600.6905f268.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)


Quicky fix for a horrid skb data leak...


 net/core/dev.c |   10 +++++++---
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -puN net/core/dev.c~skb-leak-fix net/core/dev.c
--- 25/net/core/dev.c~skb-leak-fix	2003-10-04 00:32:19.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/net/core/dev.c	2003-10-04 00:33:18.000000000 -0700
@@ -1576,9 +1576,13 @@ int netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *sk
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (pt_prev)
-		ret = deliver_skb(skb, pt_prev, 1);
-	else {
+	if (pt_prev) {
+		if (!pt_prev->data) {
+			ret = deliver_to_old_ones(pt_prev, skb, 1);
+		} else {
+			ret = pt_prev->func(skb, skb->dev, pt_prev);
+		}
+	} else {
 		kfree_skb(skb);
 		/* Jamal, now you will not able to escape explaining
 		 * me how you were going to use this. :-)

_


                 reply	other threads:[~2003-10-04  7:34 UTC|newest]

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