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authorEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>2019-06-10 13:02:19 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-07-10 09:56:34 +0200
commit3aca04068aa31c6be368616b7ae377e58bd54123 (patch)
tree915d6617e9874cab95349708abd9de6db91e2990
parentb79e58acda3f7d3004ac35e026bdabc617ea38c0 (diff)
cfg80211: fix memory leak of wiphy device name
commit 4f488fbca2a86cc7714a128952eead92cac279ab upstream. In wiphy_new_nm(), if an error occurs after dev_set_name() and device_initialize() have already been called, it's necessary to call put_device() (via wiphy_free()) to avoid a memory leak. Reported-by: syzbot+7fddca22578bc67c3fe4@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: 1f87f7d3a3b4 ("cfg80211: add rfkill support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/core.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c
index a1e909ae0f78..ded9d6d04dee 100644
--- a/net/wireless/core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/core.c
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ use_default_name:
&rdev->rfkill_ops, rdev);
if (!rdev->rfkill) {
- kfree(rdev);
+ wiphy_free(&rdev->wiphy);
return NULL;
}