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* [PATCH] nl80211: Fix potential memory leak from parse_acl_data
@ 2015-10-29  6:04 Ola Olsson
  2015-11-03  9:28 ` Johannes Berg
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ola Olsson @ 2015-10-29  6:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: johannes; +Cc: linux-wireless, Ola Olsson, Ola Olsson

If parse_acl_data succeeds but the subsequent parsing of smps
attributes fails, there will be a memory leak due to early returns.
Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Ola Olsson <ola.olsson@sonymobile.com>
---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c |   12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index d693c9d..40ef5d6 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -3432,12 +3432,6 @@ static int nl80211_start_ap(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 					   wdev->iftype))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_ACL_POLICY]) {
-		params.acl = parse_acl_data(&rdev->wiphy, info);
-		if (IS_ERR(params.acl))
-			return PTR_ERR(params.acl);
-	}
-
 	if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_SMPS_MODE]) {
 		params.smps_mode =
 			nla_get_u8(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_SMPS_MODE]);
@@ -3461,6 +3455,12 @@ static int nl80211_start_ap(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 		params.smps_mode = NL80211_SMPS_OFF;
 	}
 
+	if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_ACL_POLICY]) {
+		params.acl = parse_acl_data(&rdev->wiphy, info);
+		if (IS_ERR(params.acl))
+			return PTR_ERR(params.acl);
+	}
+
 	wdev_lock(wdev);
 	err = rdev_start_ap(rdev, dev, &params);
 	if (!err) {
-- 
1.7.9.5


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