[PATCH 3.12 103/133] ieee802154: Fix memory leak in ieee802154_add_iface()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Feb 04 2014 - 17:07:08 EST


3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@xxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 267d29a69c6af39445f36102a832b25ed483f299 ]

Fix a memory leak in the ieee802154_add_iface() error handling path.
Detected by Coverity: CID 710490.

Signed-off-by: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
@@ -224,8 +224,10 @@ static int ieee802154_add_iface(struct s

if (info->attrs[IEEE802154_ATTR_DEV_TYPE]) {
type = nla_get_u8(info->attrs[IEEE802154_ATTR_DEV_TYPE]);
- if (type >= __IEEE802154_DEV_MAX)
- return -EINVAL;
+ if (type >= __IEEE802154_DEV_MAX) {
+ rc = -EINVAL;
+ goto nla_put_failure;
+ }
}

dev = phy->add_iface(phy, devname, type);


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