[PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 078/164] nl80211: Fix potential memory leak from parse_acl_data

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Wed Dec 02 2015 - 12:42:06 EST


3.19.8-ckt11 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Ola Olsson <ola1olsson@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 4baf6bea37247e59f1971e8009d13aeda95edba2 upstream.

If parse_acl_data succeeds but the subsequent parsing of smps
attributes fails, there will be a memory leak due to early returns.
Fix that by moving the ACL parsing later.

Fixes: 18998c381b19b ("cfg80211: allow requesting SMPS mode on ap start")
Signed-off-by: Ola Olsson <ola.olsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/wireless/nl80211.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index e13325f..49cc71c 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -3388,12 +3388,6 @@ static int nl80211_start_ap(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
wdev->iftype))
return -EINVAL;

- if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_ACL_POLICY]) {
- params.acl = parse_acl_data(&rdev->wiphy, info);
- if (IS_ERR(params.acl))
- return PTR_ERR(params.acl);
- }
-
if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_SMPS_MODE]) {
params.smps_mode =
nla_get_u8(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_SMPS_MODE]);
@@ -3417,6 +3411,12 @@ static int nl80211_start_ap(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
params.smps_mode = NL80211_SMPS_OFF;
}

+ if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_ACL_POLICY]) {
+ params.acl = parse_acl_data(&rdev->wiphy, info);
+ if (IS_ERR(params.acl))
+ return PTR_ERR(params.acl);
+ }
+
wdev_lock(wdev);
err = rdev_start_ap(rdev, dev, &params);
if (!err) {
--
1.9.1

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