[PATCH v2] mac80211: fix memory leak

From: Sudip Mukherjee
Date: Tue Feb 02 2016 - 02:51:28 EST


From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On error we jumped to the error label and returned the error code but we
missed releasing sinfo.

Fixes: 5fe74014172d ("mac80211: avoid excessive stack usage in sta_info")
Reviewed-by: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

v2: added Fixes tag, Reviewed-by and From:.

net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
index 6c198e6..36e75c4 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
@@ -561,6 +561,7 @@ static int sta_info_insert_finish(struct sta_info *sta) __acquires(RCU)
__cleanup_single_sta(sta);
out_err:
mutex_unlock(&local->sta_mtx);
+ kfree(sinfo);
rcu_read_lock();
return err;
}
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1.9.1