From: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
To: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Ujjal Roy <royujjal@gmail.com>,
Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>,
Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>,
Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>,
Frank Huang <frankh@marvell.com>, Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.13] mwifiex: fix memory leak issue for ibss join
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:08:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1385060936-18833-1-git-send-email-bzhao@marvell.com> (raw)
From: Ujjal Roy <royujjal@gmail.com>
For IBSS join if the requested SSID matches current SSID,
it returns without freeing the allocated beacon IE buffer.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.10+
Signed-off-by: Ujjal Roy <royujjal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
index c8e029d..a09398f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
@@ -319,8 +319,8 @@ int mwifiex_bss_start(struct mwifiex_private *priv, struct cfg80211_bss *bss,
if (bss_desc && bss_desc->ssid.ssid_len &&
(!mwifiex_ssid_cmp(&priv->curr_bss_params.bss_descriptor.
ssid, &bss_desc->ssid))) {
- kfree(bss_desc);
- return 0;
+ ret = 0;
+ goto done;
}
/* Exit Adhoc mode first */
--
1.8.2.3
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