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

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From: Linux Kernel Mailing List
Date: Sunday, March 7, 2010 - 6:02 pm

Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/linus/8d03847c090b12694fb9fa81dbefa7b3e4f10f1d
Commit:     8d03847c090b12694fb9fa81dbefa7b3e4f10f1d
Parent:     837b8248f6206a6b08b3d6defe2946282e432679
Author:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
AuthorDate: Fri Feb 19 16:18:09 2010 +0100
Committer:  Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
CommitDate: Wed Mar 3 16:43:03 2010 -0800

    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>
---
 drivers/staging/batman-adv/routing.c |    9 ++++-----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/batman-adv/routing.c b/drivers/staging/batman-adv/routing.c
index 7dc9aef..d89048b 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/batman-adv/routing.c
+++ b/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;
 }
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