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From: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>
To: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@gmx.at>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net,
	Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: fix potential leak in update_bcn_wps_ie()
Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 14:22:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140501122216.GC1806@mguzik.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140501135727.467d6bf2@spike>

On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 01:57:27PM +0200, Christian Engelmayer wrote:
> Fix a potential leak in the error path of function update_bcn_wps_ie().
> Make sure that allocated memory for 'pbackup_remainder_ie' is freed
> upon return. Detected by Coverity - CID 1077718.
> 

        if (remainder_ielen > 0) {
                pbackup_remainder_ie = kmalloc(remainder_ielen, GFP_ATOMIC);
                if (pbackup_remainder_ie)
                        memcpy(pbackup_remainder_ie, premainder_ie,
                               remainder_ielen);
        }

        pwps_ie_src = pmlmepriv->wps_beacon_ie;
        if (pwps_ie_src == NULL)
                return;


Maybe just check pwps_ie_src earlier?

-- 
Mateusz Guzik

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-01 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-01 11:57 [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: fix potential leak in update_bcn_wps_ie() Christian Engelmayer
2014-05-01 12:22 ` Mateusz Guzik [this message]
2014-05-01 20:16   ` Christian Engelmayer
2014-05-01 21:46     ` Jes Sorensen

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