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From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
To: "tom.leiming\@gmail.com" <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless\@vger.kernel.org"
	<linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"johannes\@sipsolutions.net" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_send_probe_req
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:19:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fx67qwmg.fsf@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1263563061-3825-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com> (ext tom's message of "Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:44:21 +0100")

"ext tom.leiming@gmail.com" <tom.leiming@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
>
> This patch fixes memory leak in ieee80211_send_probe_req, which
> is introduced in 7c12ce8b854df346388ea56d684784e3484012cf:
>
> 	mac80211: use Probe Request template when sending a direct scan


Sorry, I introduced this bug. Thank you finding this.

> The patch is against the latest wireless-test tree.

You should add comments like this after the "---" line.

> @@ -1028,6 +1028,7 @@ void ieee80211_send_probe_req(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, u8 *dst,
>  
>  	IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb)->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_DONT_ENCRYPT;
>  	ieee80211_tx_skb(sdata, skb);
> +	kfree(buf);

Better to use dev_kfree_skb() here.

Can you resend, please?

-- 
Kalle Valo

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-15 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-15 13:44 [PATCH] mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_send_probe_req tom.leiming
2010-01-15 14:19 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2010-01-15 14:36   ` Ming Lei
2010-01-15 14:53     ` Kalle Valo
2010-01-15 14:36   ` Kalle Valo

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