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From: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:02:50 +0800
Subject: genetlink: Fix a memory leak on error path
Git-commit: ceabee6c59943bdd5e1da1a6a20dc7ee5f8113a2
Patch-mainline: v5.1-rc3
References: networking-stable-19_03_28, CVE-2019-15921, bsc#1149602

In genl_register_family(), when idr_alloc() fails,
we forget to free the memory we possibly allocate for
family->attrbuf.

Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Fixes: 2ae0f17df1cd ("genetlink: use idr to track families")
Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
---
 net/netlink/genetlink.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index 25eeb6d2a75a..f0ec068e1d02 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ int genl_register_family(struct genl_family *family)
 			       start, end + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (family->id < 0) {
 		err = family->id;
-		goto errout_locked;
+		goto errout_free;
 	}
 
 	err = genl_validate_assign_mc_groups(family);
@@ -385,6 +385,7 @@ int genl_register_family(struct genl_family *family)
 
 errout_remove:
 	idr_remove(&genl_fam_idr, family->id);
+errout_free:
 	kfree(family->attrbuf);
 errout_locked:
 	genl_unlock_all();
-- 
2.21.0