ipv6: fix a possible double free

When calling snmp6_alloc_dev fails, the snmp6 relevant memory
are freed by snmp6_alloc_dev. Calling in6_dev_finish_destroy
will free these memory twice.

Double free will lead that undefined behavior occurs.

Signed-off-by: Roy Li <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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Roy Li 2011-09-20 15:10:16 -04:00 • committed by David S. Miller
commit 8603e33d01

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@ -374,8 +374,8 @@ static struct inet6_dev * ipv6_add_dev(struct net_device *dev)
"%s(): cannot allocate memory for statistics; dev=%s.\n",
__func__, dev->name));
neigh_parms_release(&nd_tbl, ndev->nd_parms);
ndev->dead = 1;
in6_dev_finish_destroy(ndev);
dev_put(dev);
kfree(ndev);
return NULL;
}