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 --- net/handshake/tlshd.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/handshake/tlshd.c b/net/handshake/tlshd.c index 081093dfd553..8f9532a15f43 100644 --- a/net/handshake/tlshd.c +++ b/net/handshake/tlshd.c @@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ static int tls_handshake_accept(struct handshake_req *req, out_cancel: genlmsg_cancel(msg, hdr); + nlmsg_free(msg); out: return ret; } -- 2.34.1