Patch "brcmfmac: fix memory leak in brcmf_fill_bss_param" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    brcmfmac: fix memory leak in brcmf_fill_bss_param

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     brcmfmac-fix-memory-leak-in-brcmf_fill_bss_param.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


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From: =?UTF-8?q?Rafa=C5=82=20Mi=C5=82ecki?= <rafal@milecki.pl>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 08:23:24 +0200
Subject: brcmfmac: fix memory leak in brcmf_fill_bss_param
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From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>

commit 23e9c128adb2038c27a424a5f91136e7fa3e0dc6 upstream.

This function is called from get_station callback which means that every
time user space was getting/dumping station(s) we were leaking 2 KiB.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Fixes: 1f0dc59a6de ("brcmfmac: rework .get_station() callback")
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
@@ -2408,7 +2408,7 @@ static void brcmf_fill_bss_param(struct
 				     WL_BSS_INFO_MAX);
 	if (err) {
 		brcmf_err("Failed to get bss info (%d)\n", err);
-		return;
+		goto out_kfree;
 	}
 	si->filled |= BIT(NL80211_STA_INFO_BSS_PARAM);
 	si->bss_param.beacon_interval = le16_to_cpu(buf->bss_le.beacon_period);
@@ -2420,6 +2420,9 @@ static void brcmf_fill_bss_param(struct
 		si->bss_param.flags |= BSS_PARAM_FLAGS_SHORT_PREAMBLE;
 	if (capability & WLAN_CAPABILITY_SHORT_SLOT_TIME)
 		si->bss_param.flags |= BSS_PARAM_FLAGS_SHORT_SLOT_TIME;
+
+out_kfree:
+	kfree(buf);
 }
 
 static s32


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rafal@milecki.pl are

queue-4.4/brcmfmac-fix-memory-leak-in-brcmf_fill_bss_param.patch