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Zilin Guan dd1eb65716 net/handshake: Fix memory leak in tls_handshake_accept()
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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: 2fd5532044 ("net/handshake: Add a kernel API for requesting a TLSv1.3 handshake")
Signed-off-by: Zilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251106144511.3859535-1-zilin@seu.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2025-11-24 10:37:29 +01:00
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