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net/handshake: Fix memory leak in tls_handshake_accept()
authorZilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>
Thu, 6 Nov 2025 14:45:11 +0000 (14:45 +0000)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 01:53:47 +0000 (17:53 -0800)
commit3072f00bba764082fa41b3c3a2a7b013335353d2
tree7d71900be38ff790aba42e7a35697bf4a462fec6
parentec33f2e5a2d0dbbfd71435209aee812fdc9369b8
net/handshake: Fix memory leak in tls_handshake_accept()

In tls_handshake_accept(), a netlink message is allocated using
genlmsg_new(). In the error handling path, genlmsg_cancel() is called
to cancel the message construction, but the message itself is not freed.
This leads to a memory leak.

Fix this by calling nlmsg_free() in the error path after genlmsg_cancel()
to release the allocated memory.

Fixes: 2fd5532044a89 ("net/handshake: Add a kernel API for requesting a TLSv1.3 handshake")
Signed-off-by: Zilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251106144511.3859535-1-zilin@seu.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
net/handshake/tlshd.c