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Staging: batman-adv: Fix skbuff leak in VIS code.

The vis code takes a copy of the data inside the skbuf if it is interesting
for us, so we always need to release the skbuf.

Reported-by: Linus Luessing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Andrew Lunn 15 years ago
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1 changed files with 4 additions and 5 deletions
  1. 4 5
      drivers/staging/batman-adv/routing.c

+ 4 - 5
drivers/staging/batman-adv/routing.c

@@ -939,7 +939,6 @@ int recv_vis_packet(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	struct vis_packet *vis_packet;
 	struct ethhdr *ethhdr;
 	int hdr_size = sizeof(struct vis_packet);
-	int ret;
 
 	if (skb_headlen(skb) < hdr_size)
 		return NET_RX_DROP;
@@ -962,18 +961,18 @@ int recv_vis_packet(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	case VIS_TYPE_SERVER_SYNC:
 		/* TODO: handle fragmented skbs properly */
 		receive_server_sync_packet(vis_packet, skb_headlen(skb));
-		ret = NET_RX_SUCCESS;
 		break;
 
 	case VIS_TYPE_CLIENT_UPDATE:
 		/* TODO: handle fragmented skbs properly */
 		receive_client_update_packet(vis_packet, skb_headlen(skb));
-		ret = NET_RX_SUCCESS;
 		break;
 
 	default:	/* ignore unknown packet */
-		ret = NET_RX_DROP;
 		break;
 	}
-	return ret;
+
+	/* We take a copy of the data in the packet, so we should
+	   always free the skbuf. */
+	return NET_RX_DROP;
 }