Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:21:56 +0000 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: tipc: Fix kfree_skb() of uninitialised pointer Forwarded: http://mid.gmane.org/20151215212156.GQ28542@decadent.org.uk Commit 7098356baca7 ("tipc: fix error handling of expanding buffer headroom") added a "goto tx_error". This is fine upstream, but when backported to 4.3 it results in attempting to free the clone before it has been allocated. In this early error case, no cleanup is needed. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- net/tipc/udp_media.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/tipc/udp_media.c b/net/tipc/udp_media.c index 86f2e7c..73bdf1b 100644 --- a/net/tipc/udp_media.c +++ b/net/tipc/udp_media.c @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ static int tipc_udp_send_msg(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb, if (skb_headroom(skb) < UDP_MIN_HEADROOM) { err = pskb_expand_head(skb, UDP_MIN_HEADROOM, 0, GFP_ATOMIC); if (err) - goto tx_error; + return err; } clone = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);