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Commit d198b277 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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Revert "Revert "ipv4: fix memory leaks in ip_cmsg_send() callers""

This reverts commit d7807a9a.

As mentioned in https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/9/13/1819


5 years old commit 91948309 ("ipv4: fix memory leaks in ip_cmsg_send() callers")
was a correct fix.

  ip_cmsg_send() can loop over multiple cmsghdr()

  If IP_RETOPTS has been successful, but following cmsghdr generates an error,
  we do not free ipc.ok

  If IP_RETOPTS is not successful, we have freed the allocated temporary space,
  not the one currently in ipc.opt.

Sure, code could be refactored, but let's not bring back old bugs.

Fixes: d7807a9a ("Revert "ipv4: fix memory leaks in ip_cmsg_send() callers"")
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 4f884f39
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