Tung Nguyen
2fe97a578d
tipc: fix potential memory leak in __tipc_sendmsg()
When initiating a connection message to a server side, the connection message is cloned and added to the socket write queue. However, if the cloning is failed, only the socket write queue is purged. It causes memory leak because the original connection message is not freed. This commit fixes it by purging the list of connection message when it cannot be cloned. Fixes: 6787927475e5 ("tipc: buffer overflow handling in listener socket") Reported-by: Hoang Le <hoang.h.le@dektech.com.au> Signed-off-by: Tung Nguyen <tung.q.nguyen@dektech.com.au> Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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