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<title>netlink: ensure to loop over all netns in genlmsg_multicast_allns()</title>
<updated>2018-03-11T15:21:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Dichtel</name>
<email>nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-06T13:48:32+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit cb9f7a9a5c96a773bbc9c70660dc600cfff82f82 ]

Nowadays, nlmsg_multicast() returns only 0 or -ESRCH but this was not the
case when commit 134e63756d5f was pushed.
However, there was no reason to stop the loop if a netns does not have
listeners.
Returns -ESRCH only if there was no listeners in all netns.

To avoid having the same problem in the future, I didn't take the
assumption that nlmsg_multicast() returns only 0 or -ESRCH.

Fixes: 134e63756d5f ("genetlink: make netns aware")
CC: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit cb9f7a9a5c96a773bbc9c70660dc600cfff82f82 ]

Nowadays, nlmsg_multicast() returns only 0 or -ESRCH but this was not the
case when commit 134e63756d5f was pushed.
However, there was no reason to stop the loop if a netns does not have
listeners.
Returns -ESRCH only if there was no listeners in all netns.

To avoid having the same problem in the future, I didn't take the
assumption that nlmsg_multicast() returns only 0 or -ESRCH.

Fixes: 134e63756d5f ("genetlink: make netns aware")
CC: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netlink: put module reference if dump start fails</title>
<updated>2018-03-11T15:21:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-21T03:41:59+00:00</published>
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commit b87b6194be631c94785fe93398651e804ed43e28 upstream.

Before, if cb-&gt;start() failed, the module reference would never be put,
because cb-&gt;cb_running is intentionally false at this point. Users are
generally annoyed by this because they can no longer unload modules that
leak references. Also, it may be possible to tediously wrap a reference
counter back to zero, especially since module.c still uses atomic_inc
instead of refcount_inc.

This patch expands the error path to simply call module_put if
cb-&gt;start() fails.

Fixes: 41c87425a1ac ("netlink: do not set cb_running if dump's start() errs")
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b87b6194be631c94785fe93398651e804ed43e28 upstream.

Before, if cb-&gt;start() failed, the module reference would never be put,
because cb-&gt;cb_running is intentionally false at this point. Users are
generally annoyed by this because they can no longer unload modules that
leak references. Also, it may be possible to tediously wrap a reference
counter back to zero, especially since module.c still uses atomic_inc
instead of refcount_inc.

This patch expands the error path to simply call module_put if
cb-&gt;start() fails.

Fixes: 41c87425a1ac ("netlink: do not set cb_running if dump's start() errs")
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>netlink: Add netns check on taps</title>
<updated>2018-01-02T19:35:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin Cernekee</name>
<email>cernekee@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-06T20:12:27+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 93c647643b48f0131f02e45da3bd367d80443291 ]

Currently, a nlmon link inside a child namespace can observe systemwide
netlink activity.  Filter the traffic so that nlmon can only sniff
netlink messages from its own netns.

Test case:

    vpnns -- bash -c "ip link add nlmon0 type nlmon; \
                      ip link set nlmon0 up; \
                      tcpdump -i nlmon0 -q -w /tmp/nlmon.pcap -U" &amp;
    sudo ip xfrm state add src 10.1.1.1 dst 10.1.1.2 proto esp \
        spi 0x1 mode transport \
        auth sha1 0x6162633132330000000000000000000000000000 \
        enc aes 0x00000000000000000000000000000000
    grep --binary abc123 /tmp/nlmon.pcap

Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee &lt;cernekee@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 93c647643b48f0131f02e45da3bd367d80443291 ]

Currently, a nlmon link inside a child namespace can observe systemwide
netlink activity.  Filter the traffic so that nlmon can only sniff
netlink messages from its own netns.

Test case:

    vpnns -- bash -c "ip link add nlmon0 type nlmon; \
                      ip link set nlmon0 up; \
                      tcpdump -i nlmon0 -q -w /tmp/nlmon.pcap -U" &amp;
    sudo ip xfrm state add src 10.1.1.1 dst 10.1.1.2 proto esp \
        spi 0x1 mode transport \
        auth sha1 0x6162633132330000000000000000000000000000 \
        enc aes 0x00000000000000000000000000000000
    grep --binary abc123 /tmp/nlmon.pcap

Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee &lt;cernekee@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>crypto: deadlock between crypto_alg_sem/rtnl_mutex/genl_mutex</title>
<updated>2017-12-25T13:23:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-14T10:25:57+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8a0f5ccfb33b0b8b51de65b7b3bf342ba10b4fb6 ]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:44:10AM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
&gt;
&gt; Yes, please.
&gt; Disregarding some reports is not a good way long term.

Please try this patch.

---8&lt;---
Subject: netlink: Annotate nlk cb_mutex by protocol

Currently all occurences of nlk-&gt;cb_mutex are annotated by lockdep
as a single class.  This causes a false lcokdep cycle involving
genl and crypto_user.

This patch fixes it by dividing cb_mutex into individual classes
based on the netlink protocol.  As genl and crypto_user do not
use the same netlink protocol this breaks the false dependency
loop.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8a0f5ccfb33b0b8b51de65b7b3bf342ba10b4fb6 ]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:44:10AM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
&gt;
&gt; Yes, please.
&gt; Disregarding some reports is not a good way long term.

Please try this patch.

---8&lt;---
Subject: netlink: Annotate nlk cb_mutex by protocol

Currently all occurences of nlk-&gt;cb_mutex are annotated by lockdep
as a single class.  This causes a false lcokdep cycle involving
genl and crypto_user.

This patch fixes it by dividing cb_mutex into individual classes
based on the netlink protocol.  As genl and crypto_user do not
use the same netlink protocol this breaks the false dependency
loop.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>af_netlink: ensure that NLMSG_DONE never fails in dumps</title>
<updated>2017-11-24T07:33:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-09T04:04:44+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0642840b8bb008528dbdf929cec9f65ac4231ad0 ]

The way people generally use netlink_dump is that they fill in the skb
as much as possible, breaking when nla_put returns an error. Then, they
get called again and start filling out the next skb, and again, and so
forth. The mechanism at work here is the ability for the iterative
dumping function to detect when the skb is filled up and not fill it
past the brim, waiting for a fresh skb for the rest of the data.

However, if the attributes are small and nicely packed, it is possible
that a dump callback function successfully fills in attributes until the
skb is of size 4080 (libmnl's default page-sized receive buffer size).
The dump function completes, satisfied, and then, if it happens to be
that this is actually the last skb, and no further ones are to be sent,
then netlink_dump will add on the NLMSG_DONE part:

  nlh = nlmsg_put_answer(skb, cb, NLMSG_DONE, sizeof(len), NLM_F_MULTI);

It is very important that netlink_dump does this, of course. However, in
this example, that call to nlmsg_put_answer will fail, because the
previous filling by the dump function did not leave it enough room. And
how could it possibly have done so? All of the nla_put variety of
functions simply check to see if the skb has enough tailroom,
independent of the context it is in.

In order to keep the important assumptions of all netlink dump users, it
is therefore important to give them an skb that has this end part of the
tail already reserved, so that the call to nlmsg_put_answer does not
fail. Otherwise, library authors are forced to find some bizarre sized
receive buffer that has a large modulo relative to the common sizes of
messages received, which is ugly and buggy.

This patch thus saves the NLMSG_DONE for an additional message, for the
case that things are dangerously close to the brim. This requires
keeping track of the errno from -&gt;dump() across calls.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0642840b8bb008528dbdf929cec9f65ac4231ad0 ]

The way people generally use netlink_dump is that they fill in the skb
as much as possible, breaking when nla_put returns an error. Then, they
get called again and start filling out the next skb, and again, and so
forth. The mechanism at work here is the ability for the iterative
dumping function to detect when the skb is filled up and not fill it
past the brim, waiting for a fresh skb for the rest of the data.

However, if the attributes are small and nicely packed, it is possible
that a dump callback function successfully fills in attributes until the
skb is of size 4080 (libmnl's default page-sized receive buffer size).
The dump function completes, satisfied, and then, if it happens to be
that this is actually the last skb, and no further ones are to be sent,
then netlink_dump will add on the NLMSG_DONE part:

  nlh = nlmsg_put_answer(skb, cb, NLMSG_DONE, sizeof(len), NLM_F_MULTI);

It is very important that netlink_dump does this, of course. However, in
this example, that call to nlmsg_put_answer will fail, because the
previous filling by the dump function did not leave it enough room. And
how could it possibly have done so? All of the nla_put variety of
functions simply check to see if the skb has enough tailroom,
independent of the context it is in.

In order to keep the important assumptions of all netlink dump users, it
is therefore important to give them an skb that has this end part of the
tail already reserved, so that the call to nlmsg_put_answer does not
fail. Otherwise, library authors are forced to find some bizarre sized
receive buffer that has a large modulo relative to the common sizes of
messages received, which is ugly and buggy.

This patch thus saves the NLMSG_DONE for an additional message, for the
case that things are dangerously close to the brim. This requires
keeping track of the errno from -&gt;dump() across calls.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netlink: do not set cb_running if dump's start() errs</title>
<updated>2017-11-18T10:22:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-09T12:14:51+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 41c87425a1ac9b633e0fcc78eb1f19640c8fb5a0 ]

It turns out that multiple places can call netlink_dump(), which means
it's still possible to dereference partially initialized values in
dump() that were the result of a faulty returned start().

This fixes the issue by calling start() _before_ setting cb_running to
true, so that there's no chance at all of hitting the dump() function
through any indirect paths.

It also moves the call to start() to be when the mutex is held. This has
the nice side effect of serializing invocations to start(), which is
likely desirable anyway. It also prevents any possible other races that
might come out of this logic.

In testing this with several different pieces of tricky code to trigger
these issues, this commit fixes all avenues that I'm aware of.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 41c87425a1ac9b633e0fcc78eb1f19640c8fb5a0 ]

It turns out that multiple places can call netlink_dump(), which means
it's still possible to dereference partially initialized values in
dump() that were the result of a faulty returned start().

This fixes the issue by calling start() _before_ setting cb_running to
true, so that there's no chance at all of hitting the dump() function
through any indirect paths.

It also moves the call to start() to be when the mutex is held. This has
the nice side effect of serializing invocations to start(), which is
likely desirable anyway. It also prevents any possible other races that
might come out of this logic.

In testing this with several different pieces of tricky code to trigger
these issues, this commit fixes all avenues that I'm aware of.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netlink: do not proceed if dump's start() errs</title>
<updated>2017-10-12T09:51:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-27T22:41:44+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit fef0035c0f31322d417d1954bba5ab959bf91183 ]

Drivers that use the start method for netlink dumping rely on dumpit not
being called if start fails. For example, ila_xlat.c allocates memory
and assigns it to cb-&gt;args[0] in its start() function. It might fail to
do that and return -ENOMEM instead. However, even when returning an
error, dumpit will be called, which, in the example above, quickly
dereferences the memory in cb-&gt;args[0], which will OOPS the kernel. This
is but one example of how this goes wrong.

Since start() has always been a function with an int return type, it
therefore makes sense to use it properly, rather than ignoring it. This
patch thus returns early and does not call dumpit() when start() fails.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit fef0035c0f31322d417d1954bba5ab959bf91183 ]

Drivers that use the start method for netlink dumping rely on dumpit not
being called if start fails. For example, ila_xlat.c allocates memory
and assigns it to cb-&gt;args[0] in its start() function. It might fail to
do that and return -ENOMEM instead. However, even when returning an
error, dumpit will be called, which, in the example above, quickly
dereferences the memory in cb-&gt;args[0], which will OOPS the kernel. This
is but one example of how this goes wrong.

Since start() has always been a function with an int return type, it
therefore makes sense to use it properly, rather than ignoring it. This
patch thus returns early and does not call dumpit() when start() fails.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netlink: Do not schedule work from sk_destruct</title>
<updated>2016-12-06T00:43:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-05T07:28:21+00:00</published>
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It is wrong to schedule a work from sk_destruct using the socket
as the memory reserve because the socket will be freed immediately
after the return from sk_destruct.

Instead we should do the deferral prior to sk_free.

This patch does just that.

Fixes: 707693c8a498 ("netlink: Call cb-&gt;done from a worker thread")
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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It is wrong to schedule a work from sk_destruct using the socket
as the memory reserve because the socket will be freed immediately
after the return from sk_destruct.

Instead we should do the deferral prior to sk_free.

This patch does just that.

Fixes: 707693c8a498 ("netlink: Call cb-&gt;done from a worker thread")
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: Call cb-&gt;done from a worker thread</title>
<updated>2016-11-30T00:48:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-28T11:22:12+00:00</published>
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The cb-&gt;done interface expects to be called in process context.
This was broken by the netlink RCU conversion.  This patch fixes
it by adding a worker struct to make the cb-&gt;done call where
necessary.

Fixes: 21e4902aea80 ("netlink: Lockless lookup with RCU grace...")
Reported-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan &lt;subashab@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Acked-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The cb-&gt;done interface expects to be called in process context.
This was broken by the netlink RCU conversion.  This patch fixes
it by adding a worker struct to make the cb-&gt;done call where
necessary.

Fixes: 21e4902aea80 ("netlink: Lockless lookup with RCU grace...")
Reported-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan &lt;subashab@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Acked-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>genetlink: fix a memory leak on error path</title>
<updated>2016-11-03T20:52:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>WANG Cong</name>
<email>xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-03T16:42:35+00:00</published>
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In __genl_register_family(), when genl_validate_assign_mc_groups()
fails, we forget to free the memory we possibly allocate for
family-&gt;attrbuf.

Note, some callers call genl_unregister_family() to clean up
on error path, it doesn't work because the family is inserted
to the global list in the nearly last step.

Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kubakici@wp.pl&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In __genl_register_family(), when genl_validate_assign_mc_groups()
fails, we forget to free the memory we possibly allocate for
family-&gt;attrbuf.

Note, some callers call genl_unregister_family() to clean up
on error path, it doesn't work because the family is inserted
to the global list in the nearly last step.

Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kubakici@wp.pl&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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