* [PATCH] b43: Fix rfkill allocation leakage in error paths
@ 2008-01-23 11:02 Michael Buesch
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From: Michael Buesch @ 2008-01-23 11:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: John Linville; +Cc: bcm43xx-dev, linux-wireless, Ben Greear
We must kill rfkill in any error paths that trigger after rfkill init.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
---
John, please try to push this for 2.6.24. Seems quite important,
as it leaks resources and might crash the kernel.
Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-2.6.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c 2008-01-23 11:52:50.000000000 +0100
+++ wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c 2008-01-23 11:55:17.000000000 +0100
@@ -3626,38 +3626,45 @@ static void b43_op_remove_interface(stru
static int b43_op_start(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
{
struct b43_wl *wl = hw_to_b43_wl(hw);
struct b43_wldev *dev = wl->current_dev;
int did_init = 0;
int err = 0;
+ bool do_rfkill_exit = 0;
/* First register RFkill.
* LEDs that are registered later depend on it. */
b43_rfkill_init(dev);
mutex_lock(&wl->mutex);
if (b43_status(dev) < B43_STAT_INITIALIZED) {
err = b43_wireless_core_init(dev);
- if (err)
+ if (err) {
+ do_rfkill_exit = 1;
goto out_mutex_unlock;
+ }
did_init = 1;
}
if (b43_status(dev) < B43_STAT_STARTED) {
err = b43_wireless_core_start(dev);
if (err) {
if (did_init)
b43_wireless_core_exit(dev);
+ do_rfkill_exit = 1;
goto out_mutex_unlock;
}
}
out_mutex_unlock:
mutex_unlock(&wl->mutex);
+ if (do_rfkill_exit)
+ b43_rfkill_exit(dev);
+
return err;
}
static void b43_op_stop(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
{
struct b43_wl *wl = hw_to_b43_wl(hw);
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