From: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@gmx.at>
To: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Cc: Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: fix potential leak in update_bcn_wps_ie()
Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 13:57:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140501135727.467d6bf2@spike> (raw)
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Fix a potential leak in the error path of function update_bcn_wps_ie().
Make sure that allocated memory for 'pbackup_remainder_ie' is freed
upon return. Detected by Coverity - CID 1077718.
Signed-off-by: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@gmx.at>
---
Compile tested and applies against branch staging-next of tree
git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
---
drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_ap.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_ap.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_ap.c
index 9b31412..f2c78a7 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_ap.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_ap.c
@@ -1276,7 +1276,7 @@ static void update_bcn_wps_ie(struct rtw_adapter *padapter)
pwps_ie_src = pmlmepriv->wps_beacon_ie;
if (pwps_ie_src == NULL)
- return;
+ goto exit;
wps_ielen = (uint)pwps_ie_src[1];/* to get ie data len */
if ((wps_offset+wps_ielen+2+remainder_ielen)<= MAX_IE_SZ)
@@ -1291,8 +1291,8 @@ static void update_bcn_wps_ie(struct rtw_adapter *padapter)
pnetwork->IELength = wps_offset + (wps_ielen+2) + remainder_ielen;
}
- if (pbackup_remainder_ie)
- kfree(pbackup_remainder_ie);
+exit:
+ kfree(pbackup_remainder_ie);
}
static void update_bcn_p2p_ie(struct rtw_adapter *padapter)
--
1.9.1
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next reply other threads:[~2014-05-01 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-01 11:57 Christian Engelmayer [this message]
2014-05-01 12:22 ` [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: fix potential leak in update_bcn_wps_ie() Mateusz Guzik
2014-05-01 20:16 ` Christian Engelmayer
2014-05-01 21:46 ` Jes Sorensen
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