tipc: eliminate potential memory leak

In the function tipc_sk_mcast_rcv() we call refcount_dec(&skb->users)
on received sk_buffers. Since the reference counter might hit zero at
this point, we have a potential memory leak.

We fix this by replacing refcount_dec() with kfree_skb().

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

diff --git a/net/tipc/socket.c b/net/tipc/socket.c
index 5d18c0caa92b213740e5c6e3152ec8ce37717dc2..41127d0b925ea4d515e7c7bbe6739dee99a442f2 100644 (file)
--- a/net/tipc/socket.c
+++ b/net/tipc/socket.c
@@ -1140,7 +1140,7 @@ void tipc_sk_mcast_rcv(struct net *net, struct sk_buff_head *arrvq,
                                __skb_dequeue(arrvq);
                                __skb_queue_tail(inputq, skb);
                        }
-                       refcount_dec(&skb->users);
+                       kfree_skb(skb);
                        spin_unlock_bh(&inputq->lock);
                        continue;
                }