[PATCH 3.12 059/118] mwifiex: fix memory leak issue for ibss join

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-12-18T21:34:03Z

From: Ujjal Roy <royujjal@gmail.com>

commit 517543fd72d577dde2ebd9505dc4abf26d589f9a upstream.

For IBSS join if the requested SSID matches current SSID,
it returns without freeing the allocated beacon IE buffer.

Signed-off-by: Ujjal Roy <royujjal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- 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_pri
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 */