OpenZFS 8375 - Kernel memory leak in nvpair code

[mirror_zfs.git] / module / nvpair / nvpair.c

diff --git a/module/nvpair/nvpair.c b/module/nvpair/nvpair.c
index 2e3820981abb72e93ba777b0c812eef2a791068c..8e654053cba7b9a3603dbea62d354d1704b25816 100644 (file)
--- a/module/nvpair/nvpair.c
+++ b/module/nvpair/nvpair.c
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2000, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
- * Copyright (c) 2015, 2016 by Delphix. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2015, 2017 by Delphix. All rights reserved.
  */
 
 #include <sys/stropts.h>
@@ -2200,8 +2200,10 @@ nvs_embedded(nvstream_t *nvs, nvlist_t *embedded)
 
                nvlist_init(embedded, embedded->nvl_nvflag, priv);
 
-               if (nvs->nvs_recursion >= nvpair_max_recursion)
+               if (nvs->nvs_recursion >= nvpair_max_recursion) {
+                       nvlist_free(embedded);
                        return (EINVAL);
+               }
                nvs->nvs_recursion++;
                if ((err = nvs_operation(nvs, embedded, NULL)) != 0)
                        nvlist_free(embedded);