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cfg80211: Fix a memory leak in error handling path in 'brcmf_cfg80211_attach'

Message ID 20170620062205.16078-1-christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr
State Awaiting Upstream, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Commit Message

Christophe JAILLET June 20, 2017, 6:22 a.m. UTC
If 'wiphy_new()' fails, we leak 'ops'. Add a new label in the error
handling path to free it in such a case.

Fixes: 5c22fb85102a7 ("brcmfmac: add wowl gtk rekeying offload support")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Kalle Valo June 20, 2017, 6:33 a.m. UTC | #1
Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> If 'wiphy_new()' fails, we leak 'ops'. Add a new label in the error
> handling path to free it in such a case.
>
> Fixes: 5c22fb85102a7 ("brcmfmac: add wowl gtk rekeying offload support")
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>

The prefix should be "brcmfmac:", like in the commit you are fixing.
"cfg80211:" is very misleading.
Arend van Spriel June 20, 2017, 7:53 p.m. UTC | #2
On 20-06-17 08:22, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> If 'wiphy_new()' fails, we leak 'ops'. Add a new label in the error
> handling path to free it in such a case.

Thanks. Please add the following tags:

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 5c22fb85102a7 ("brcmfmac: add wowl gtk rekeying offload support")
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
index 2443c71a202f..032d823c53c2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
@@ -6861,7 +6861,7 @@  struct brcmf_cfg80211_info *brcmf_cfg80211_attach(struct brcmf_pub *drvr,
 	wiphy = wiphy_new(ops, sizeof(struct brcmf_cfg80211_info));
 	if (!wiphy) {
 		brcmf_err("Could not allocate wiphy device\n");
-		return NULL;
+		goto ops_out;
 	}
 	memcpy(wiphy->perm_addr, drvr->mac, ETH_ALEN);
 	set_wiphy_dev(wiphy, busdev);
@@ -7012,6 +7012,7 @@  struct brcmf_cfg80211_info *brcmf_cfg80211_attach(struct brcmf_pub *drvr,
 	ifp->vif = NULL;
 wiphy_out:
 	brcmf_free_wiphy(wiphy);
+ops_out:
 	kfree(ops);
 	return NULL;
 }