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Commit 6107c5da authored by Xiyu Yang's avatar Xiyu Yang Committed by Simon Wunderlich
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batman-adv: Fix refcnt leak in batadv_store_throughput_override



batadv_show_throughput_override() invokes batadv_hardif_get_by_netdev(),
which gets a batadv_hard_iface object from net_dev with increased refcnt
and its reference is assigned to a local pointer 'hard_iface'.

When batadv_store_throughput_override() returns, "hard_iface" becomes
invalid, so the refcount should be decreased to keep refcount balanced.

The issue happens in one error path of
batadv_store_throughput_override(). When batadv_parse_throughput()
returns NULL, the refcnt increased by batadv_hardif_get_by_netdev() is
not decreased, causing a refcnt leak.

Fix this issue by jumping to "out" label when batadv_parse_throughput()
returns NULL.

Fixes: 0b5ecc68 ("batman-adv: add throughput override attribute to hard_ifaces")
Signed-off-by: default avatarXiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@fudan.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: default avatarXin Tan <tanxin.ctf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
parent f872de81
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