Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] slirp: goto bad in udp_input if sosendto fails

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2014-06-11 10:55, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Before this patch, if sosendto fails, udp_input is executed as if the
> packet was sent. This could cause memory leak.

Cannot follow yet how this could leak (not saying I fully got what it
should NOT leak - nasty code). Can you elaborate on the before/after?

Jan

> This patch adds a goto bad to cut the execution of this function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guillaume Subiron <address@hidden>
> ---
>  slirp/udp.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/slirp/udp.c b/slirp/udp.c
> index 8cc6cb6..fd2446a 100644
> --- a/slirp/udp.c
> +++ b/slirp/udp.c
> @@ -218,6 +218,7 @@ udp_input(register struct mbuf *m, int iphlen)
>         *ip=save_ip;
>         DEBUG_MISC((dfd,"udp tx errno = %d-%s\n",errno,strerror(errno)));
>         icmp_error(m, ICMP_UNREACH,ICMP_UNREACH_NET, 0,strerror(errno));
> +       goto bad;
>       }
>  
>       m_free(so->so_m);   /* used for ICMP if error on sorecvfrom */
> 

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