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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: macsec: fix potential resource leak in
 macsec_add_rxsa() and macsec_add_txsa()
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
To:     Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@163.com>, davem@davemloft.net,
        edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org
Cc:     netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date:   Thu, 07 Jul 2022 09:38:05 +0200
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hello,

On Wed, 2022-07-06 at 15:48 +0800, Jianglei Nie wrote:
> init_rx_sa() allocates relevant resource for rx_sa->stats and rx_sa->
> key.tfm with alloc_percpu() and macsec_alloc_tfm(). When some error
> occurs after init_rx_sa() is called in macsec_add_rxsa(), the function
> released rx_sa with kfree() without releasing rx_sa->stats and rx_sa->
> key.tfm, which will lead to a resource leak.
> 
> We should call macsec_rxsa_put() instead of kfree() to decrease the ref
> count of rx_sa and release the relevant resource if the refcount is 0.
> The same bug exists in macsec_add_txsa() for tx_sa as well. This patch
> fixes the above two bugs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@163.com>

This looks exactly alike the previous version: it still lacks the
target tree and more importantly the Fixes tag.

Additionally, we new post a new revision of a previously posted patch,
you should include a version number into the subj line.

Please read carefully the documentation under Documentation/process/
(including maintainer-netdev.rst) before your next attempt,

Thanks!

Paolo